Our nephrologists at Kidney Week

The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension may be the smallest in Internal Medicine, but during the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2021, they made big moves at the national level. Under the leadership of Division Director Chou-Long Huang, MD, PhD, the division submitted 17 accepted abstracts and presentations for the virtual conference earlier this […]

Timely and tragic case report examines COVID-19 vaccine for the immunocompromised

After SARS-CoV-2 began to rapidly spread across the globe in 2020, there was a rush to develop safe and effective vaccines that could slow the spread and limit the severity of the virus. Although the mRNA vaccines reduce symptoms of COVID-19 by more than 90%, the efficacy of these mRNA vaccines in immunocompromised people has […]

Making the Rounds

University of Iowa Department of Internal Medicine

Tag: Masaaki Yamada

Our nephrologists at Kidney Week

Timely and tragic case report examines COVID-19 vaccine for the immunocompromised