Matthew Rizzo, a UI professor of neurology, comments on the difficulty of assessing various factors on driver safety, in a story on the impact of sleep aids and drowsy driving, which also mentions UI's National Advanced Driving Simulator as a resource used by drug companies.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is using a new 3-D imaging tool called tomosynthesis to help detect breast cancer earlier, resulting in a 40 percent improvement in cancer detection rates, according to Dr. Laurie Fajardo, UI Hospitals and Clinics professor of radiology.

Dr. Sonali Patel, a pediatric cardiologist who helped found a childhood obesity clinic at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics two years ago, has seen steady increases in the number of Iowa children with complications from obesity.

Steve Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts, Limited, has donated $25 million to the UI to accelerate the search for cures for rare eye diseases, including the one that hampers his own vision.

Stephen A. Wynn has made a $25 million gift commitment to the University of Iowa to support the UI’s Institute for Vision Research. The gift, which was announced at today’s meeting of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa held in Ames, will be used to accelerate progress toward cures for rare, inherited retinal diseases.

In a new study, published online Aug. 8 in the journal Science, a University of Iowa team led by Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., has pinpointed not just one, but three proteins that are required for constructing a key, early section of a critical sugar chain. Mutations affecting any one of these three proteins can cause congenital muscular dystrophies in humans.

University of Iowa research has led to the development of a drug that could help some patients who have the eye disease macular degeneration.

Dexter Brady was born at 23 weeks at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital, but because of advances in treating premature children, he shows no developmental abnormalities today, at age 3.

NanoMedTrix, a 1-year-old Coralville firm based upon University of Iowa research that may one day save lives by helping physicians identify bladder and colon cancers at early stages of development, recently received a grant that is the first of its kind.

Dr. Peter Cram of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics discusses joint replacement pricing.

Jeffrey Segar, director of the Iowa Statewide Perinatal Care Program and University of Iowa Children's Hospital director of neonatology, says a new drug-screening protocol designed to detect drug-addicted newborns has been adopted by roughly 80 birthing hospitals in the state.

This year's University of Iowa Health Care Annual Report features examples of the ways UI Health Care experts are building bridges and creating connections—through patient care, education, and research missions.