Jack Bickel was born with moderate to severe hearing loss and was fitted with hearing aids when he was 6 months old. At age 3, he moved on to a more powerful hearing aid. At age 9, what was left of Jack’s hearing started to decline significantly. A “hybrid” cochlear implant invented at the UI turned things around.

Madison Van Winkle celebrated her first birthday with something new—bilateral cochlear implants.

Bruce Gantz, head of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, directs a multidisciplinary center at the University of Iowa that is driving improvements in cochlear implant technology, developing new implants for deaf children and adults, and preparing the field for advances in regenerative medicine.

A University of Iowa Faculty and Staff Health Fair will be held Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the UI Field House main deck.

A second $10 million gift commitment from former Maquoketa, Iowa, residents Jerre and Mary Joy Stead to improve children's medicine at the University of Iowa will create four new faculty chairs and establish funds to support innovation and leadership development.

Total visits to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are up this year over last year, with patients for the first time being distributed between the main hospital, Quick Care clinics, and the new Iowa River Landing site.

Grace Lidgett, 8, was just 14 months old when she was referred to UI Children’s Hospital. She started showing allergy symptoms and had difficulty growing. The family learned she has cystic fibrosis—a genetic disorder that causes her body to produce thick, sticky mucus that clogs her organs.

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will host a Mini Medical School program on lung health on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in the Adler Health Education Center at Genesis Medical Center East located at 1236 E. Rusholme St., in Davenport.

Joan Kjaer Kirkman will never forget the welcome her daughter received at the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her family's experience inspires Kirkman to support the search for new treatments and, eventually, cures.

A second $10 million gift commitment from Jerre and Mary Joy Stead of Scottsdale, Ariz., will advance children's medicine at the University of Iowa by creating four new faculty chairs and establishing funds to support innovation and leadership development.

A study by University of Iowa researchers found that patients who received mailed educational information about colon cancer screening plus a testing kit they could use at home were more than three times as likely to get screened for the disease as patients who received usual medical care.

Chan ignored the skeptics and completed a degree at the University of Iowa. Now he's giving back to help other students realize their dreams.