Bill Field, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the UI, writes about the danger of radon, and why he believes the EPA shouldn't be allowed to drop the ball by eliminating funding to help states promote radon awareness.

Leaders of Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City announced Monday, April 2, that they are now caring for area children in a joint pediatric specialty clinic located in Bettendorf.

UI organizations sponsor education events as part of national push to combat prescription-drug abuse.

Michael Kutcher, brother of actor Ashton Kutcher and heart transplant recipient at UI Hospitals and Clinics, will meet with children who also have received a heart transplant and with other pediatric patients who are waiting for a donor heart to become available, during an April 9 tour of Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center.

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

Neuroscientist André Fenton will give a lecture titled “Erasing, Tracing, and Harnessing Memory” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in Shambaugh Auditorium in the University of Iowa Main Library.

A University of Iowa student's essay about how the Internet and social media helped the Ponseti method become the gold standard for the treatment of clubfoot has won a national contest.

Public health approaches do not routinely include a geographical perspective. Kirsten Beyer, a health geographer, will offer a free, public talk on the intersection of geography and public health at a free talk at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, on the University of Iowa campus.

The State Health Registry of Iowa, based in the UI College of Public Health, issued its Cancer in Iowa 2012 report, which includes county-by-county statistics, summaries of new research projects, and a section focused on lung cancer, one of the state's "big four" cancers.

Aside from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, how many other U.S. schools offer advanced education in all dental specialties?

Laurence Fuortes, UI professor of occupational and environmental health, is helping Cold War "nuclear cowboys" receive benefits. Fuortes helped former atomic workers who were recently deemed eligible for compensation due to toxic exposures at Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University with the paperwork for their claims.

One of the Navy's first female fighter pilots who currently studies artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among the five internationally recognized neuroscientists who will deliver free public lectures during the University of Iowa's Health Sciences Research Week 2012.

Although she harbored serious doubts about medicine as a career choice, Amy Domeyer-Klenske focused on the human interactions that attracted her to medicine. Soon she realized she was on the right path—a path that took a desirable turn on Match Day.

UI dance alumna Susan Rieger says almost anyone can benefit from dance therapy. Rieger uses dance therapy in her new company, Moving Toward Wholeness, to help everyone from a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome to a woman in her mid 50s wanting to build her core strength.

UI psychologist Michelle Voss says lifestyle factors can help offset the loss of brain plasticity, making learning more possible for the elderly.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will join a nationwide effort to fight obesity, funded through the Healthy Weight Collaborative.

Sherry Lang, one of 10 UIHC nurses named to 100 Great Iowa Nurses, is profiled.

A brand-new addition and planned renovations to the College of Dentistry's Dental Science Building promise to enhance the experience for students while giving patients some of the best care available anywhere in the world.

Academic institutions should start making a more concerted effort to engage with and support aging employees as they continue to work well past the traditional retirement age, according to a new report from the University of Iowa Center on Aging and the TIAA-CREF Institute.

News media are invited to a briefing on the annual "Cancer in Iowa" report at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Ellig Classroom (N12) of the College of Public Health Building.