On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will host a Mini Medical School program, "Personal Genetic Information: Its Power, Promise, and Problems."

George Wehby, a researcher in the UI College of Public Health, discovered South American babies and toddlers living at high altitude were more likely to score poorly on early tests of brain development in a recently published study in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Nancy Hall, environmental microbiology manager with the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa, says sunlight is nature's way of cleansing water in an article on the significant health risks posed by Hurricane Sandy.

On Tuesday, Nov. 13, the University of Iowa Health Sciences Policy Council will host a one-day, nonpartisan conference titled "Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland 5: Shaping Iowa’s Health Care Landscape," featuring keynote speaker Susan Dentzer, editor in chief of the policy journal Health Affairs, at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines. There is a fee.

Edward Bell, M.D., a professor of pediatrics with University of Iowa's Children's Hospital and an expert in the care of extremely premature infants, comments on the importance of standardization of care for very premature babies.

During the month of November, people will see red flags on the University of Iowa campus as part of The Red Flag campaign, spearheaded by the UI Men's Anti-Violence Council and the UI Women's Resource and Action Center, to educate college students about dating violence.

How do you recover from a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, which is estimated to have caused billions of dollars in economic losses, as well as emotional damages from the rising death toll? An upcoming UI workshop will examine several recent worldwide disasters in an attempt to answer that question.

Two recent fatalities in Iowa have prompted a University of Iowa College of Public Health program to issue a hazard alert warning farmers and tractor operators about the risk of being run over when starting tractors from a standing position on the ground.

Adults age 45 and older with elevated triglycerides who have had a stroke, heart attack, chest pain, or heart surgery are invited to participate in a University of Iowa research study on preventing these conditions.

Oncologists may be failing to communicate to advanced lung cancer patients and their families about the limits of measures aimed at making them more comfortable, according to a new study with authors from the University of Iowa, among other institutions.

Carver College of Medicine student marks World Stroke Day by recounting his experience witnessing the dramatic results of timely stroke treatment.

Mark Dyken, the director of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Sleep Disorders Clinic, says that power naps allow people to encode data better. At the UI, researchers such as Professor Karla McGregor are looking at the power of naps and memory formation.