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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are seen on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.

State of Iowa to pay patient $350,000 following negligence lawsuit

Lillian Poulsen, News Reporter February 8, 2021

The State of Iowa agreed to pay a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patient a $350,000 settlement because of alleged negligence from a hip surgery in 2016. Following a right total hip arthroplasty...

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are seen on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners see decrease in patients during the pandemic

Lily Rosen Marvin, News Reporter February 7, 2021

Both the Iowa City Police Department and the Johnson County Sexual Assault Response Team have seen a significant drop in sexual-assault reports since the start of the pandemic. While reports have decreased,...

Photo of Director of Translational Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry Andrew Pieper.

Iowa and Ohio researchers discover compound with the potential to protect prenatal brain development

Marco Oceguera, News Reporter February 4, 2021

As a generation of babies are born in the middle of a global crisis, researchers in Iowa and Ohio discovered a compound with the potential to protect babies’ brain development from the harmful impacts...

Community vaccinations given on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Ronald See closes his eyes as Kristen Van Scoyoc RN administers the vaccine. See said he was glad to finally get it.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics vaccinate 1,000 people Wednesday

Caleb McCullough, Managing Editor February 3, 2021

Meredith Field was elated when she got the call that she had been selected as one of the first Johnson County residents in the general population to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from University of...

Vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen before they are injected, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

United Kingdom strand of COVID-19 found in Johnson County

Rachel Schilke, News Editor February 1, 2021

Three cases of the United Kingdom-variant of COVID-19 – a more easily spreadable strand of the virus – have been confirmed in Iowa, with two cases reported in Johnson County. In Johnson County,...

UI nursing student Macy Griebel receives the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 at the UI Medical Education Research Facility.

UI students roll up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine

Sarah Watson, Executive Editor January 31, 2021

As Waale Gbara stood in line for her first dose of the Moderna vaccine, she thought about a patient she treated after a bout of COVID-19. The patient was a dynamic, high-functioning adult who exercised...

Dragonfly Transplant Fund co-founder Ed Brown and social worker, Brittni Engrav pose for a portrait in front of the Iowa River Landing in Coralville on Saturday, January 24th 2021. The Dragonfly Transplant Fund was founded by Ed and his wife Deb who would use the program to reward organ donors with gift cards. (Tate Hildyard/The Daily Iowan)

Dragonfly Transplant Fund extends support to transplant patients and their families

Grace Hamilton, News Reporter January 27, 2021

After forty years of marriage, one of Ed Brown’s favorite moments spent with his wife Deb happened after her liver transplant operation in 2016. Following months of anxious waiting and an eventual...

Patients are injected with the COVID-19 vaccine at the VA Medical Center in Iowa City on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. The center received the Modern vaccine for its employees.

UIHC health official says vaccine supply is short, but ‘we can handle this’

Sabine Martin, News Reporter January 26, 2021

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will offer COVID-19 vaccination to those eligible in the second round of vaccination, phase 1B, on Feb. 1, though hospital leaders say vaccine supply is short...

Board members listen during the Board of Regents meeting on September 12, 2018 in the IMU Main Lounge. Regents members discussed remodeling various buildings and sights across various Iowa campuses.

Regents counter UIHC union’s 5 percent wage increase request with 1 percent raise

Eleanor Hildebrandt, News Reporter January 21, 2021

Representatives of the Iowa state Board of Regents proposed a 1 percent wage increase per year in its two-year contract negotiations with University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics caregivers, less than...

A nurse receives one of first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

Watch: Social media reactions from health care workers in Iowa after receiving COVID-19 vaccine

Kelsey Harrell, Managing Digital Editor December 15, 2020

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Iowa yesterday and health care workers at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics become the first people in the state to receive doses of the vaccine. Some...

David Conway, a registered nurse in the emergency department at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital from registered nurse Rachel Lewis, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

‘Grateful:’ University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees receive first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Lillian Poulsen, News Reporter December 14, 2020

Health care workers, long on the front lines facing COVID-19, are now the first in line to receive the first doses of the vaccine to prevent the disease. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics...

A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is drawn into a syringe, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics first hospital in the state to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Rylee Wilson, News Editor December 14, 2020

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees began receiving the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine on Monday, which was studied in clinical trials at the hospital.  According to a press release from...