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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.
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.
Meet Janet Andrews, clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology - maternal/fetal medicine.
Cerebellar stimulation restores missing brain wave in rats and corrects timing deficit “A beautiful, lobular structure,” is how Krystal Parker describes the cerebellum—a brain region located at the base of the skull just above the spinal column. The cerebellum is most commonly associated with...
Meet Ling Yang, PhD, assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology.
George Weiner, professor and director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Michael Voigt, clinical professor of internal medicine, comment on the Cancer in Iowa 2017 report released by the State Health Registry of Iowa. Read more in The Loop .
A very lucky rural Iowa community could land Shea and Michael Jorgensen as its new doctors in a few years. The couple graduate from the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine this year, will spend the next several years in residency training, and hope to practice in an...
Medical students graduating from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine gathered in the atrium of the college’s Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF) this morning, filled with anticipation as they waited to see where they would spend their residency.
Meet Huxing Cui, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology.
A new study in rats suggests that nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3, may be useful for treating or preventing nerve pain (neuropathy) caused by chemotherapy drugs.