Sandra Daack-Hirsch, a clinical nurse specialist and assistant professor in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, has made it her mission to find out why fewer women are participating in pre-natal screening.

A Mini Medical School program on "The Future of Human Reproduction" will discuss the ethical, social, and legal issues surrounding the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis of embryos conceived by in vitro fertilization before a woman becomes pregnant.

In 2009, 11-year-old Alex Kirby learned he had a rare genetic kidney disorder. After his transplant, doctors determined his sister, Molly, had the same disorder and would also need a transplant.

UI Health Care is targeting the concerns of many students and Iowa City community members about the Affordable Care Act in an attempt to ease confusion, and Peter Damiano, the director of the UI Public Policy Center, says students need to be informed about key aspects of the law.

Mothers who have one-on-one sessions with nurses after having a premature birth are found to decrease their postpartum symptoms, according to a UI study.

Amy Belfi, a fourth-year graduate student in the UI Neuroscience Graduate Program, is using crowdfunding to help support her study on the link between music and autobiographical memory. Her goal of $1,500, to be raised by Oct. 18, will be used to compensate study participants and defray their travel costs.

A survey conducted by the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa shows that while most children in Iowa have a medical home base, some are being left behind, including those with special-needs, on public insurance, or who are African-American. A webinar on the findings will be Friday, Oct. 4 at 2 p.m.

Friends of teens are the most significant risk factor for adolescents having that first drink too early. UI psychiatry professor Samuel Kuperman says a teen's friend might be the biggest risk factor for starting drinking ahead of family history and social behavior.

University of Iowa Recreational Services is offering another session of Bootcamp, a fitness class that combines functional sports training exercises, metabolic conditioning, and partner and group exercises.

A University of Iowa study shows that mothers with prematurely born babies benefit emotionally and mentally from one-on-one sessions with a hospital nurse. The pilot "listening visits" may provide a framework for helping pre-term infant mothers combat anxiety and depression. Results published in the Journal of Perinatology.

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.

A new University of Iowa study, published in the journal Science, challenges the longstanding belief that anabolic steroids become less ecologically harmful as they degrade.