Articles from April 2017

UI to teach business and leadership skills to health care providers across Iowa

Monday, April 24, 2017
Medical school students learn a lot of about health care, but a professor in the University of Iowa’s Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine says learning about business would be helpful too.

Martinez and Lee honored with Diversity Catalyst Award

Monday, April 17, 2017
Experiences that Denise Martinez, MD, and Amy Lee, PhD, had growing up left lasting impressions and sparked strong personal commitments to improving diversity and inclusion in their workplaces and communities.

UI clinician spearheading promising melanoma immunotherapy treatment

Monday, April 17, 2017
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Yousef Zakharia, MD, has presented promising data at a national meeting about combining a new investigational immunotherapy drug with an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug to treat patients with advanced melanoma.

High-dose vitamin C proves safe and well-tolerated in brain and lung cancer trials

Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Evidence is growing that adding high-dose, intravenous vitamin C in combination with standard chemotherapy and radiation treatment is a safe, relatively inexpensive approach that may improve outcomes for patients with a wide range of cancers.

UI undergrads tackle pressing health problems

Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Heart disease. Diabetes. Alzheimer’s. Most people reading this know someone affected by one of these serious medical conditions. They take a huge toll on populations across the globe, leading to millions of deaths each year and billions of dollars in health care costs.