Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying the sleep of premature babies to get the earliest look to date into how the twitches that occur during REM sleep shape the nascent communication between brain and body. William Kline was not interested in falling asleep. Instead, the 4-month-old was lying belly down on his baby blanket in the Sleep and Behavioral Development Lab on the University…

A public health team from the University of Iowa is collaborating with partners across the state to share county-specific cancer data with residents in each of Iowa’s 99 counties. A U.S. News & World Report article in 2023 sounded the alarm for residents of a rural county in northwest Iowa. Palo Alto County, the report stated, had the second-highest rate of newly diagnosed cancers in the country …

Match Day Q&A: Chandler Brown. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? I was never one to sit still in classrooms well, but I was good at school. I liked learning. I also really like sports. So, I thought, “Physical therapy is what you do if you're good at sports and good at school.” I started out majoring in athletic training with the intent to go to physical therapy school. But then,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…