Links Between Gut Bacteria and Blood Vessels Uncovered
The trillions of bacteria that colonize the gut play multiple roles in health and disease. Certain forms of gut bacteria promote diabetes, lead to weight…
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Hoffman Receives CDC Funding to Study Decision-Making
Dr. Richard Hoffman is one of two researchers at the University of Iowa to receive a Special Interests Project (SIP) grant from the Centers for…
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Training, Discovering, and Reviewing
The Mechanisms of Parasitism training program, recently renewed for another 5 years by the National Institutes of Health, has been running at this institution for…
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Raising Internal Medicine’s Profile
We all recognize that one measurement does not tell us who we are or what we can achieve; instead, they are helpful guideposts to tell…
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MRSA Initiative research calls for second look at cost-effectiveness
Though initiatives meant to prevent hospital-acquired infection come with price tags that can seem to outweigh the reduction of a single infectious disease, a new…
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August 2016: Silvie Kremserová
Imagine landing a job in a foreign country that you have seen once briefly. You move there with little idea about how anything works, from…
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Recognizing Our Impact
Every member of a department with as long and storied a history as ours will appreciate the ways in which their actions could have a…
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Protein interaction drives muscle atrophy
Muscle wasting, or atrophy, is a serious condition that affects millions of Americans. Aging is the most common cause, but muscle atrophy also happens as…
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Positive Collateral Damage in MRSA Fight
Drs. Michihiko Goto and Eli Perencevich have published new findings in the most recent issue of Clinical Infectious Disease that reveal the VA’s nationwide and…
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Singh employs growing registries to pave the way for risk research and more
Using data from the Veterans Administration rheumatoid arthritis (VARA) registry, which draws enrollment from twelve sites across the country, a research team including Dr. Namrata…
