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.

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.

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.

Scientists have studied the prickle gene mutation in flies since the 1930s, but only a couple winters ago did anyone realize these flies had epilepsy. The discovery could provide a new testing route for human treatments.

Some theorize it's low-pressure fields, but a UI pathologist and colleagues suggest a more basic problem.