Improving opportunities for women to obtain higher-paying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers will be the subject of a free, public talk from 5 to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 19, at T-Spoons, located at the corner of Linn and Market streets.

UI premature infant specialist Edward Bell explains how Argentina's "miracle morgue baby," who survived 12 hours without assistance before being discovered alive, could have been declared dead.

United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine will give the keynote address at the sixth annual writing conference presented by the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

The UI Heart and Vascular Center is using a breakthrough approach called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement to treat certain elderly and high-risk patients with severe stenosis—a narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve.

Experts at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa are the first in the state to offer intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for breast cancer patients. The treatment allows a therapeutic dose of radiation to be delivered immediately following surgery while the patient is still in the operating room.

The University of Iowa honored outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni on April 10 at the 95th anniversary Finkbine Dinner, one of the university’s most prestigious award ceremonies.

The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

It’s now official. Des Moines is the formal site of a regional branch campus for the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. A recent agreement between the Des Moines Area Medical Education Consortium and the UI Carver College of Medicine cements the arrangement for the next 10 years.

The leaders of University of Iowa Health Care and Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids today, Wednesday, April 4, jointly announced plans to collaborate on the design and development of a new nonprofit health care organization that will enhance the health of communities in the Corridor and beyond.

People with tinnitus may be eligible to participate in a University of Iowa study examining a method for testing tinnitus.

The Midwest Melanoma Partnership, an initiative to advance melanoma research and improve care for patients with melanoma, was launched this month by a group of physicians, researchers, and patient advocates following a meeting at the University of Iowa.

A trio of UI experts say tobacco company spending and cuts in prevention funding make it difficult to combat lung cancer.