IOWA CITY – A Haitian baby who received surgery at University of Iowa Children’s Hospital for a birth defect is going home Saturday, May 12. Bedica Ermilus was about 14 weeks old when surgeons performed the operation in March for anorectal malformation, a lower digestive tract abnormality. Dr. Christopher Buresh, an emergency physician at...
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  BETHESDA, MD – May 11, 2012 – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) recently elected Jeffrey C. Murray, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Nursing, and Biological Sciences at the University of Iowa, to serve as the Society’s president in 2013. ASHG is the leading professional membership organization for human genetics specialists worldwide,...
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IOWA CITY- More than 160,000,000 people in the U.S. use the Facebook social media site. And now every member will get a chance to promote organ donation and sign up to become an organ donor if they’re not already. Transplant programs around the country, including the one at the University of Iowa Hospitals and...
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Since 2001 the Maahs family has provided over $120,000 in philanthropic support to the University of Iowa’s Gastroenterology Division for hepatitis C research in tribute to the late Martha Maahs via an annual “Clownin Around” golf event in Peosta, Iowa.   Martha died in 2000 from complications of hepatitis C, which she had obtained...
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    WHAT:  On Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, Loras College Dance Marathon is hosting a donor registry drive to raise awareness about the need for marrow donors and encourage the attendees and community to consider joining so more patients can have the transplant they need.   Dubuque area students and residents...
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IOWA CITY — Worried about her baby’s failing health, but reassured by a maternal connection, a young Haitian mother entrusted her daughter to an Iowa City couple to secure the medical attention she needed. Dr. Christopher Buresh, 36, an emergency physician at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, has made dozens of medical trips...
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         The leaders of University of Iowa Health Care and Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids today jointly announced plans to collaborate to enhance the health of communities in the Corridor. “This relationship will enable both organizations to continue to deliver high quality health care in patient-centered environments while we work...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Options for cancer care are growing in Eastern Iowa as another cancer center prepares to open its doors. Staff at Mercy Medical Center’s new Hall-Perrine Cancer Center will begin seeing patients on one floor Monday, with another floor scheduled to open this spring. “Everything is here,” said Dee Eadie, who was...
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IOWA CITY- The earlier doctors detect life-threatening health issues, usually the better the chances for a cure.  And doctors at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics began applying that theory on Tuesday to all babies just a day or two after delivery.   The routine newborn screenings that began on Valentine’s Day will...
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IOWA CITY  – A new form of newborn screening at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics could save the lives  of babies born with heart defects. Pulse oximetry is a quick, non-invasive way to screen for seven forms of critical congenital heart defects, said Dr. Ben Reinking, a UI pediatric cardiologist. According to the...
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