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.

A new University of Iowa study finds that bigger may be better when it comes to lung transplants.

Donor breast milk that is donated, tested, and pasteurized at a University of Iowa milk bank is making a big difference for moms who wish to breast feed but can't, especially those with premature babies.

Patricia Quinlisk, Iowa's state epidemiologist, says that Michael Last, a parasitologist at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the UI, is a "good, good, good microbiologist" after he first recognized the microscopic parasite that caused an outbreak of diarrheal disease in Iowa.

University of Iowa Children's Hospital announces this year's Kid Captains, former and current patients whose stories will be highlighted throughout the Iowa Hawkeyes' 2013 football season.