Lung transplant patients and their families walked alongside their physicians from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' transplant center Saturday at the American Lung Association's Fight for Air Walk in Des Moines.

The University of Iowa has named Edwin Dove and Susan Johnson this year's recipients of the Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service, recognizing their contributions to the university and the state of Iowa.

Emma Miller was just 4 years old when she had an adverse reaction to medication, causing her lips to swell and her skin to blister and eventually shed. The Oelwein youngster will be the honorary Kid Captain when the Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers Saturday, Sept. 28, in an away game.

UI student Meghan Ryan will share her Irish heritage and culture through her performance with the Champagne Academy of Irish Dance at the Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival this Sunday, Sept. 29, held for the first time in Hubbard Park and as the kickoff to Homecoming 2013.

The University of Iowa is one of nine institutions nationwide to receive a multimillion-dollar contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct clinical trials of promising vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases.

New research led by University of Iowa investigators suggests that omega-3 fatty acids found in foods such as salmon and nuts don't benefit thinking and memory skills.

Pat Winokur of UI Health Care is testing a vaccine for a potentially deadly strain of influenza that killed dozens of people in China earlier this year, a strain so unfamiliar in humans that the vaccine may have to be combined with adjuvants, compounds that help boost immune system response.

Today the overwhelming majority of scientists in Iowa, the United States, and across the world agree that biological evolution explains the diversity of life on our planet.

Doctors learned Myles Peterman would be born with hydroencephalitis—a buildup of fluid inside the skull that puts pressure on the brain—and spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spinal column does not close completely while the baby is still in the womb. Now 13, he's had a variety of surgeries and comes to UI Children's Hospital a few times a year.

A team led by the Ed Stone and Budd Tucker of the University of Iowa has gained valuable insights into retinitis pigmentosa (RP) caused by defects in the gene USH2A, which, depending on how it’s mutated, can cause vision loss from RP or combined vision and hearing loss from Usher syndrome.

A multi-center study led by University of Iowa researchers to determine whether wearing back braces would prevent the need for spinal correction surgery in children with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis was cut short when early results were overwhelmingly in favor of bracing.

UI orthopedic surgeon Stuart Weinstein has published conclusive evidence that back braces are effective in treating scoliosis: “There were a lot of doctors like me who treat scoliosis as the primary focus of their practice who had doubts about whether bracing was effective.”