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Solicitation for supplies, volunteers, personnel for clinical laboratory testing

Monday, March 23, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted testing not just for COVID-19 but for other tests that use the same materials. Because there is a national shortage of certain supplies, University of Iowa Health Care is seeking assistance identifying resources that might be re-purposed for clinical testing. If you have any of these SPECIFIC supplies, please contact Bradley Ford, medical director of the...
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NASCAR driver, Clubfoot Solutions join forces to raise awareness

Tuesday, August 16, 2016
University of Iowa nonprofit startup Clubfoot Solutions has teamed up with NASCAR driver Joey Gase to raise awareness of clubfoot, a congenital condition that 200,000 children are born with each year.
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Medicine’s thorny problems tackled by multidisciplinary Iowa Medical Innovation Group

Monday, August 15, 2016
All innovation is driven by one simple thought: “There’s got to be a better way to do this.” That thought is the beginning of every project tackled by the Iowa Medical Innovation Group (IMIG), a University of Iowa program that brings together students from the colleges of law, medicine, engineering and business to develop an idea for an original medical device. From design, to prototype, to...
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Media Advisory: May 20 launch of app that seeks to reduce child mortality in Nigeria

Tuesday, May 10, 2016
WHAT: Azeez Butali, an assistant professor of oral pathology, radiology, and medicine in the University of Iowa College of Dentistry and co-founder and CEO of the non-profit organization Health Trends, will hold the international unveiling of a new app that helps seeks to lower the mortality rate of children 5 and under in Nigeria. WHEN: A media event is planned for 12 p.m. Nigerian time (6 a.m. U...