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Next UI Health Care VP is former U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Denise Jamieson

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Support


Dr. Denise Jamieson answers a question from the audience during a May 1 forum at the Medical Education Research Facility on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. Then a finalist for the position of vice president of medical affairs, Jamieson was hired for the position this week. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Dr. Denise Jamieson answers a question from the audience during a May 1 forum at the Medical Education Research Facility on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. Then a finalist for the position of vice president of medical affairs, Jamieson was hired for the position this week. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

IOWA CITY — The next head of the University of Iowa’s sprawling health care enterprise and medical college will be retired U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Denise J. Jamieson, who accumulated decades of leadership and health care experience with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at Emory University.

Most recently serving as professor and chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine — as well as chief of gynecology and obstetrics for Emory Healthcare — Jamieson, 58, will start Aug. 1 as UIHC vice president for medical affairs and

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Retirement could kill you if you don’t start exercising. Try these 6 expert tips to launch a healthy habit.

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Body

You know you need to do it, and you promise to start tomorrow. But the road from the sofa to the gym, pool or yoga studio can prove insurmountable when the day dawns. You’re just not into exercise. And you’re not alone.

Only about one in five adults exercise regularly, and that number drops to 12% for people over age 65. Working adults say the main barrier is lack of time. But having more free time, combined with a lack of structure in retirement, can also make committing to exercise a challenge.

“People’s schedules up until retirement have a lot of activity built in,” said Dr. Katie Hill, chief medical officer of Nudj Health, a Pasadena-based company that works with physicians to improve the health of older patients. 

“You’re walking to and from the car, walking around the office, getting out from your desk, going to meetings, going to

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As public health emergency ends, pandemic-era support programs have already been fading away

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Support

WASHINGTON (AP) — The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country’s formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic.

But behind the scenes, several core aspects of America’s pandemic-era emergency safety net are also coming to a close, from extra food assistance to automatic reenrollment in Medicaid. While these measures were always designed to be temporary, their expiration is inevitably producing hardship and confusion.

“People are starting to get their jobs back, but it’s still not all the way back and everything is more expensive than before the pandemic,” said Radha Muthiah, president of the Capital Area Food Bank. “The people we serve always seem to be playing catch-up.”

At Thursday’s White House briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took note of the end of the public health emergency. “The work won’t stop,” she said, with the administration working to

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