Teamwork, Swiss cheese prove the difference in COVID-19 prevention
Frequent, universal COVID-19 testing has been one of the chief preventive methods used in long-term care facilities (LTCs). Although only 8% of COVID-19 cases occur in…
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MICU faculty win Culturally Responsive Health Care Award
First awarded in 2017, the Culturally Responsive Health Care Award was established by University of Iowa Health Care to recognize individuals and groups who practice…
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Campbell elected Secretary/Treasurer of National Society of Genetic Counselors
Requesting a genetic profile has become as common as ordering the latest mystery novel through the mail. But the plot of that novel may be…
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Goto receives K08 to develop a “smart antibiogram”
Bacterial infections that develop resistance to drugs affect at least 2.8 million Americans each year. Gram-negative rod (GNR) infections especially have high and emerging resistance…
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Kobayashi finds, treats extremely rare fungal infection
Fungal periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) are essentially unheard of, contributing to only 1% of PJIs. Because they are so rare, fungal PJIs can be hard…
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Shielding our pulmonary fellows
“Among the aerosol-generating procedures,” an April 27 JAMA editorial cautioned, “performing endotracheal intubation is especially hazardous.” At University of Iowa Health Care, over the last…
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State of the Department, 2020
The following is an abridged and edited transcript of last week’s State of the Department address. To view the entire presentation, click here (hawkid login…
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World AIDS Day in Internal Medicine
Today is World AIDS Day and here at University of Iowa Health Care we are proud of the decades of care we have provided people…
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A day in the life of a PGY-3 – Laura Hill, MD
We asked a number of our residents to describe what a typical day looks like. We are grateful to share their stories in this series…
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Our trainees on the frontlines
You know that things are serious when we are in the national news every day this week. There should be no doubt that our state…
