Get to know Internal Medicine resident Alissa Kauffman, MD, and why she decided to continue her medical education at the University of Iowa.

A new study, led by Daniel Livorsi, MD, University of Iowa assistant professor of internal medicine, suggests that antibiotics are being overused in up to 50 percent of patients undergoing common urological procedures.

UI researchers led by Sam Young, PhD, used innovative technologies to determine how the strength of information flow in the brain is controlled.

“We asked our current and past patients for their input, and their generous feedback allowed us to create this beautiful new unit that we can truly call patient-centered,” says Margarita Magalhaes-Silverman, MD, director of the UI Blood and Marrow Transplant Program.

Taking known drugs and identifying new applications for them is at the heart of a UI study published Dec. 11 showing three existing drugs, never before related to epilepsy, significantly reduced seizure-like movement in a zebrafish model of seizures.

Michigan might be Samantha Sparrow’s home state, but Iowa has become her new favorite state. The graduate of the University of Iowa physician assistant program will practice in the Hawkeye State, and plans to be active in recruiting younger people to consider careers as a PA.

Viewed from a few feet away, the microneedle patch in Nicole Brogden’s palm doesn’t look like a needle at all. It’s a small sliver of metal with no sharp tip. But an up-close look reveals a dozen or more rows of tiny needles—needles that deliver a painless prick when probed with a finger