Research and Education

CRISP program helps Carver graduate match in rural health care
Mar. 31, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
Match Day Q&A: Andrea Fjelstul-Bonert. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? When I was in fourth grade, my dad fell off the top of his semi-trailer. He was a semi-truck driver. He sustained some pretty significant injuries, and seeing him navigate the health care system coming from a rural community—whether that be trying to find a good primary doctor to coordinate things or traveling…
UI Health Care, Cooper University Health Care to launch large study of rapid, innovative stroke triage strategies
Mar. 31, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
University of Iowa Health Care, in collaboration with Cooper University Health Care, has been awarded research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support a large clinical trial comparing two triage strategies for guiding thrombectomy, a life-saving intervention for patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes, the most severe and disabling subtype of…
Out-of-balance bacteria is linked to multiple sclerosis − the ratio can predict severity of disease
Mar. 24, 2025 | theconversation.com
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that results when the immune system mistakenly attacks the brain and spinal cord. It affects nearly one million people in the U.S. and over 2.8 million worldwide. While genetics play a role in the risk of developing multiple sclerosis, environmental factors such as diet, infectious disease and gut health are major contributors. The environment plays a key role in…
Match Day at Iowa: Carver graduates match in 22 specialties
Mar. 21, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
On Friday, March 21, medical students across the nation discovered where they would go for residency training. The Match is a landmark moment in a student's career and a memory with family and friends to last a lifetime. This year, 163 students will graduate from the UI Carver College of Medicine, after which one-quarter will continue their training in Iowa. The Class of 2025 matched into 22…
Carver graduate matches with UI Health Care OBGYN residency
Mar. 21, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
Match Day Q&A: Ashley Hurd-Jackson. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? My passion for medicine was sparked by my experiences growing up on a farm in rural northwest Iowa. The farm was where I got the opportunity to help my dad deliver baby pigs and is ultimately where my interest in obstetrics originally started. We have raised show pigs all my life, but we also have cattle, crops,…
UI researchers aim to improve care for potentially fatal, rare disease
Mar. 17, 2025 | pediatrics.medicine.uiowa.edu
Lyndsay Harshman, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics-nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, is leading research at the University of Iowa to identify potentially fatal gaps in care as people diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in childhood become adults. This potentially lifesaving research could particularly impact the 40,000 American women living with TSC. The rare, multi…
House fires: Mapping at-risk areas in Iowa
Mar. 04, 2025 | iprc.public-health.uiowa.edu
House fires can lead to deaths, serious injuries, and loss of property. Fires and burns are among the 10 causes of preventable injury deaths in the U.S., resulting in over 3,400 deaths every year. In 2014, structural fires, not associated with wildfires, cost the U.S. over $328 billion. Past research has shown a link between house fires and poor housing conditions, overcrowded neighborhoods, and…
Respiratory flare ups may signal COPD in smokers with normal lung function
Feb. 28, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
Sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms, like shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing, are a hallmark of declining lung function and disease progression in those already diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.) But these so-called respiratory exacerbations could also serve as an early indicator of COPD, even when patients still have normal lung function test results…
Tardigrade protein may help protect cancer patients from radiation side effects
Feb. 26, 2025 | radiationoncology.medicine.uiowa.edu
Radiation has been a mainstay cancer therapy for almost 100 years. But its potent cell-killing power, so effective against tumors, is a double-edged sword when healthy tissue gets in the way. Borrowing from one of nature’s toughest survivors, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care, MIT, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are creating a unique approach to protect healthy tissue during…