Announcements
- Lower Level corridor closure on July 5
- Stepping On series: building confidence, reducing falls
- Fitness classes offered at the Field House
- Valet parking rate to increase July 3
- Still too many emails? Here’s how to get fewer UI emails
- Street Taco Tuesdays at the Marketplace
- Top hand hygiene performers, June 11 to 17
- Reminder: No photos/video inside hospital and patient care areas
- Safety precautions issued following BSB fire investigation
- ‘I’ Stop kiosk to close June 30
News
- Shamika Patterson honored as an early-career HR professional
- “Thought you’d want to know about a few of your best”
- uihc.org: Miller awarded grant to create much-needed sarcoma registry
- Tweaking muscle metabolism prevents obesity and diabetes in mice
- uichildrens.org: Decorating masks helps young patients find courage
- uihc.org: UI Hospitals and Clinics to join phase two of COIIN
- UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital ranked in six specialties in US News & World Report 2017–18 Best Children’s Hospitals
- Family Medicine residents celebrate graduation and say farewell
- medicine.uiowa.edu: Air Force captain to emergency medicine resident
- Cystic fibrosis alters the structure of mucus in airways
- daily-iowan.com: Amanda Scott of PFS running 176 miles for multiple sclerosis
- Staff spotlight: Monique Green wins Emerging Activist Award
- What if UI Hospitals and Clinics looked like this?
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This is snot. Well, technically it’s mucus, which is important for maintaining healthy lungs. New research at the University of Iowa found that cystic fibrosis (CF) changes the structure of mucus produced in airway passages, which may help explain why people with CF have trouble clearing mucus from their lungs.
In this image of mucus in a pig affected by CF, the red strands of mucus are more tangled than normal, and the green sheets of mucus are denser. Learn more: bit.ly/2smPt44
Events
June 26, 2017 - July 3, 2017
Stars, Stripes, and Seats event at the Kaleidoscope Gift Shop and Safety Store
June 29, 2017
Science Thursdays: Food trucks, Lojo Russo, office chair yoga
June 30, 2017
The Short Coat Podcast recording session
July 3, 2017
July 5, 2017
Midweek Meditations: ‘Community Sing’
July 7, 2017
July 8, 2017
5K to benefit OB/GYN at UI Hospitals and Clinics
July 12, 2017
Midweek Meditations: Sonic Meditation
July 15, 2017
Hydrocephalus support group meeting
July 17, 2017
July 18, 2017
Medical Technology Symposium with UI Ventures
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