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Building a Biobank: Iowa Researchers Create Unique Tool for Maternal Health Research

Friday, March 22, 2024
The biobank includes the 'leftovers' from otherwise routine prenatal tests donated by Iowa women.

2023 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award

Denise Jamieson, MD, MPH, vice president for medical affairs and dean at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, wins Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award.

First-in-Iowa Nurse-Midwifery Education Program launches at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

Friday, September 8, 2023
The new Nurse-Midwifery Education Program aims to improve access to high-quality maternal health care in Iowa.

UI leaders, students honored with Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women awards

Abbey Hardy-Fairbanks, MD wins The Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the UI; a long-standing record of leadership, effort, and activism; and accomplishments of national scope or impact.

Nurse midwives fill gap in prenatal care after rural hospitals shut down labor and delivery units

Friday, July 15, 2022
Muscatine is one of hundreds of rural areas in the U.S. where hospitals have dropped birthing services during the past two decades, often because they lack obstetricians and other specialized staff members.

Study of data from 25,000 women finds at least 32% have a pelvic floor disorder

Women who have trouble controlling their bladder or bowel movements can take comfort in new data that shows they are not alone.

New research projects address health disparities

Understanding and effectively addressing upstream food insecurity for the UI obstetrical population