A study from the University of Iowa finds rural hospitals that are part of a telemedicine network with hospitals in larger cities have shorter patient wait times in their emergency rooms.

University of Iowa Health Care has been named one of the nation’s top employers for diversity by “Forbes.”

E. Dale Abel, director of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, will deliver the UI Presidential Lecture “Overfeeding the Heart: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Complications,” on Feb. 18, exploring the relationship between blood sugar and heart function. “Iowa Now” sat down with Abel to talk about his work.

The University of Iowa will honor December 2017 graduates during a series of commencement ceremonies Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 14–17.

Sharon Idiga, this year’s winner of the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT), is studying how a hormone in the body regulates sugar intake, and her research could lead to new therapies for diabetes and obesity.

The new treatment could improve survival rates for the roughly 6,000 U.S. women diagnosed with type II endometrial cancer every year, and also represents an important step in the development of targeted cancer therapies.

Pigeons aren’t so bird-brained after all. New research from the University of Iowa shows that pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and time, likely using a different region of the brain than humans and primates to do so.

J. Brooks Jackson begins his new role as University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Jackson shares his thoughts on leadership, academic medicine, Iowa, and the opportunity to lead UI Health Care.

Rare intraoperative brain recordings suggest the existence of a new brain connection that may be a target for improving cognitive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease.

The University of Iowa has been awarded $3.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to lead a new national campaign to educate Americans and health care professionals about personalized medicine.

University of Iowa professor Daniel Tranel has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

UI neurologist Edgar Samaniego and Santiago Ortega-Gutiérrez, director of neurointerventional surgery, are taking their fifth trip to South America to perform surgeries and train local providers. This time they’re going to Hospital Eugenio Espejo in Quito, Ecuador—the hospital where Samaniego did his first clinical rotations as a medical student.