Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

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Everyone dreads hearing from their dentist that they will need a root canal. Thankfully, advancements in the area have made the root canal procedure much less painful and much quicker.

Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability and among the top five causes of death in the United States: more than 795,000 people in the U.S. experience a stroke, approximately 610,000 of which are first-time strokes.

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TMJD are a group of disorders that impact the function of those joints and the surrounding muscles, causing pain — often chronic — for millions of Americans. Symptoms can include pain in the area of the jaw joint, limited movement, and clicking and locking of the jaw.

Dr. Melissa Blessing started as the Johnson County deputy medical examiner last month. She feels its a “privilege” to do the work and be able to explain to families how their loved ones died. The UI pathology department and county medical examiner department have both been on her radar since her residency at Mayo School of Graduate Education in Rochester, Minn.

The University of Iowa has agreed to pay a federally-funded researcher and cardiologist with tenure $350,000 to resign -- relinquishing his tenure rights and suspending “any internal proceedings” involving him.

Nearly three years after longtime University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Director George Weiner announced plans to step down, the health care enterprise has announced his permanent replacement in Mark Burkard.

Top health officials in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City agree Iowa is facing a physician shortage, though it is not as severe in the Corridor as in rural areas of the state. The Iowa Medical Society will be discussing that and other “pressing issues” in a series of meetings with health care providers in Cedar Rapids this week.

The University of Iowa – which did not boycott the rankings like dozens of elite law and medical schools nationally and continued providing U.S. News with internal data – lost ground in its overall law and medical school rankings, although still placing high.

For the fourth time since 2007, the National Institutes of Health has renewed a large scientific grant for the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine — this time awarding it $28 million over seven years to “take clinical research out into rural communities.”

University of Iowa Health Care’s websites were back up and running Wednesday morning after an outage Tuesday knocked them down for hours. UIHC officials haven’t answered questions about when the outage started and how long the sites were down. They also haven’t answered questions about what caused the outage and whether it was the result of a cyberattack.

University of Iowa Health Care officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon their public websites are down – including those for the UI Hospitals & Clinics, UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital, and UI Carver College of Medicine.

Speaking a different language in a health care setting can not only prevent patients from communicating aches and pains or doctors from relaying important medical news or instructions – it can keep people from seeking care altogether.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders recently notified employees that nurses in the coming weeks will face “some of the most challenging” staffing to date – warning, specifically, that nurses in some units at times will have to take on five patients.