First-year physician assistant (PA) student Shirin Khosravi’s White Coat Ceremony was nearly a decade in the making. Khosravi moved to the United States from in Iran in 2009, determined to pursue an education in her new home country. She settled in southern California, where she trained to be a phlebotomist at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. Then she worked at Mission Hospital, a Level 2…

University of Iowa Health Care researchers have produced the most comprehensive genetic and metabolic analysis to date of the oral microbiome associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), a progressive autoimmune disease that damages nerves in the brain and spinal cord. They found that people with MS have a distinct (dysbiotic) oral microbiome compared to healthy individuals.

A new study by University of Iowa researchers provides a better understanding of rural youths’ attitudes toward firearms and firearm safety measures, as well as their experiences with firearm violence and school lockdowns.

University of Iowa Health Care’s rare “brain bank” has contributed to a new study published in Nature that shows that repetitive head impact (RHI)-related brain injuries result in brain cell loss, inflammation, and vascular damage in young, former contact sport athletes. Importantly, many of these detrimental changes were seen in young athletes before the onset of chronic traumatic encephalopathy…

From the moment she took her first breath, Grace Lidgett’s life was shaped by a silent struggle. Diagnosed as a child with cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic condition that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and other organs, she’s never taken breathing for granted.

Edwin Stone, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and director of the Institute for Vision Research at the UI, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and…

Believe — a seven-letter word that means far more than its dictionary definition for the Wackers, a family of six from Eureka, Missouri.

For decades, metastatic melanoma was one of the most challenging cancers to treat. Traditional therapies, like chemotherapy, showed limited success, especially in more advanced cases.

University of Iowa Health Care researchers have been awarded a five-year, $10.7 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant from the National Cancer Institute to study new, targeted therapies for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), which are rare, slow-growing cancers that can arise almost anywhere in the body.

When teenagers and young adults with hip pain are seen by University of Iowa Health Care specialists in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, they are also often struggling with mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, and fear of further injury when returning to sports.