The Johnson County Sexual Assault Response Team (JCSART) Fund—which was established last fall by local health-care providers and other generous donors with gifts made through the University of Iowa Foundation—helps support the JCSART, one of many resources that can help lessen trauma for sexual assault victims and survivors.

A study by University of Iowa researchers confirms that pathological gambling runs in families and shows that first-degree relatives of pathological gamblers are eight times more likely to develop this problem in their lifetime than relatives of people without pathological gambling.

Very-low-birth-weight babies who undergo major surgery appear to have an increased risk of death or subsequent neurodevelopmental impairment, according to a new study published June 16 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Pamela Keel, a nationally recognized expert on eating disorders, will deliver two public lectures during a visit to the UI campus June 24 and 25. Keel's visit is co-sponsored by the Obesity Research and Educational Initiative and the Department of Psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

Medical students participated in a grain bin rescue training exercise at the University of Iowa so they're more familiar with the kinds of injuries that can be associated with that kind of an accident.

The University of Iowa Children's Hospital has been ranked among the best in the country in the latest annual survey by U.S. News & World Report.

A look inside the Iowa Ladies Football Academy, which has raised $1 million for children's health in its first four years.

Now entering its sixth year, the FUTURE in Biomedicine program places faculty and students from Iowa's primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI) with research faculty in the UI Carver College of Medicine for nine weeks during the summer.

U.S. News and World Report has ranked University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in eight out of ten specialty areas in its 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospitals listings.

To help adults and children stay safe while having fun this summer, the University of Iowa is offering a list of experts who can talk about everything from bike safety to preventing sunburn.

Patients who want to compare prices for prostate-cancer surgery may find it rough going: A University of Iowa study found a 13-fold difference in prices quoted by 100 hospitals nationwide. Moreover, most provided little more than broad estimates, and only three gave a hard copy of the charges. Results appear in the journal Urology.