Employment opportunities in the health science fields will be the topic of discussion when students from two eastern Iowa middle schools visit the University of Iowa Department of Biology this spring as part of Project HOPE, created by College of Education associate professor Saba Ali.

The University of Iowa is part of a growing movement in higher education to tackle the rapidly advancing field of personal genetics, offering an honors seminar where students have the option of sending saliva samples for testing to unlock some of their personal health and family secrets.

Medical schools and their teaching hospitals have a significant economic impact in the United States, according to an analysis compiled by the firm of Tripp-Umbach.

A University of Iowa research team has been awarded nearly $2 million to study the effects on unborn babies from mothers who abuse alcohol during pregnancy.

A University of Iowa research team has won $1.7 million to study fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a wide-ranging set of adverse effects that fetuses may face from mothers who abuse alcohol during pregnancy.

Some 200 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the President's List for the 2012 fall semester.

The Carver College of Medicine Rural Iowa Scholars Program (CRISP) embeds rural elements in the medicine curriculum through mentorships, seminars, research, and field experiences in smaller communities. Program graduates are expected to practice in a rural Iowa community for at least five years after completing a qualifying residency.

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and its students are trying to fill the state’s growing need for doctors in both rural and metropolitan areas.

The University of Iowa awarded an estimated 1,500 degrees at the close of the 2012 fall session.

Having diabetes doubles a person’s risk of dying after a heart attack, but the reason for the increased risk is not clear. A new University of Iowa study suggests the link may lie in the over-activation of an important heart enzyme.

The University of Iowa is joining forces with two health-care organizations in a partnership to improve care for patients with liver disease.

Susannah Longmuir with UI Health Care says that the goal of a recently published study is to identify children with amblyopia, sometimes called lazy eye, as young as possible so that they can start treatment before they have an eye problem or it gets worse.