Three years after it was enacted, the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, remains both controversial and widely misunderstood. On Saturday, Sept. 14, the University of Iowa Labor Center will present a conference to provide reliable and useful information about the act.

The University of Iowa Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders will sponsor a reading club for people with mild to moderate aphasia starting Sept. 3.

Friday night’s On Iowa! kickoff event at Kinnick Stadium will mean increased pedestrian traffic in the area surrounding the stadium and UI Hospitals and Clinics.

Sugarcoat, a food trailer selling vegan treats, will hit the streets of downtown Las Vegas this fall. The project, the brainchild of 14 University of Iowa students and faculty member David Gould, grew out of coffee shops and restaurants, Saturday night brainstorming sessions and weekend road trips. It "pushed the envelope of what a college class could look like."

Peter Thorne, UI professor and head of occupational and environmental health, will look at climate change from a public health angle in his Aug. 29 lecture, “Protecting Respiratory Health in a Changing Climate: David, Meet Goliath.”

Lillian Meyers, a UI nursing student, co-directs a 5K run/walk, Rescue Run, to raise money for building a shelter house in Cambodia for sex trafficking victims with disabilities. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

A UI research team led by UI professor Patrick Schlievert has made a major breakthrough in the understanding of staphylococcal infective endocarditis—a serious infection of the heart valves that kills around 20,000 Americans each year.

Dr. Resmiye Oral, director of the Child Protection Program at the University of Iowa, offers advice for frustrated or tired parents to help them prevent shaken baby syndrome.

University of Iowa researchers have discovered what causes the lethal effects of staphylococcal infective endocarditis—a serious bacterial infection of heart valves that kills approximately 20,000 Americans each year.

Claudia Beverly, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, director of the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, has dedicated her career to ensuring that all older adults receive the highest quality health care. She will be visiting the Iowa City area, including the University of Iowa, as part of the Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting...

In the 1940s, Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, a pediatric orthopedist at the University of Iowa, developed a method of treating clubfoot by stretching the tendon and casting to straighten the foot gradually. In the 1990s, parents searching for the best treatment for their children shared tips online. A Yahoo group, nosurgery4clubfoot, sprang up.

Three college buddies and UI alumni from dentistry, nursing, and business—Alec Whitters, Ben O'Connor, and Adam Keune—have created some of the most innovative tech products in 2013 through their company, Higher Learning Technologies, located in the UI Research Park.