An implant developed at the University of Iowa offers a better option for patients with ankle problems such as 69-year-old grandfather Billy Albritton of East Peoria, Illinois. Albritton shares how since his ankle replacement surgery at UI Hospitals and Clinics in April 2013, he's back to the active lifestyle he once enjoyed.

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The repository is made up of four women’s health tissue banks: Well Woman Tissue Bank, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Tissue Bank, Maternal Fetal Tissue Bank, and the Gynecologic Malignancies Tissue Bank. Samples are donated from women who are already patients at UI Women's Health Center.

An ongoing series of studies by University of Iowa researchers shows that access to a variety of specialty health care fields are more accessible than thought in rural Iowa—including oncology, urology, and now otolaryngology—but that access could be threatened depending on how health care reforms are implemented.

University of Iowa neuroscientist Daniel Tranel discusses one woman's fearlessness.

An annual University of Iowa celebration honoring the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. and addressing contemporary human rights issues will be held Jan. 19-31.

Dr. Robert Franciscus, UI Department of Anthropology, with a secondary appointment in the College of Dentistry, and Dr. Jeffrey Murray, UI College of Medicine, with a joint-appointment in the College of Dentistry, have been elected as 2014 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Drs. Murray and Franciscus are being honored for their contributions to innovation...

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will participate in a $7 million, three-year project to improve health care coordination between primary care and specialty physicians using e-consult and e-Referral technology.

Using a different type of MRI imaging, researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

UI ophthalmology professor Chris Johnson keeps his passion for music alive by keyboarding in the local Grateful Dead tribute band “Winterland.”

A new study conducted by the University of Iowa and four other universities found some areas of the brain grow more slowly in children with Type 1 diabetes than those without, according to findings published in Diabetes.

Aidan was diagnosed in Omaha, but his mother turned to University of Iowa Children's Hospital for answers. The University of Iowa is one of just 21 Huntington’s Disease Society of America Centers of Excellence nationwide. Photo courtesy of UI Health Care Marketing and Communication.