Chris Buresh and Casey Panko, a UI Hospitals and Clinics emergency-medicine physician and emergency department nurse respectively, served as team leaders when traveling to Haiti in March along with other Community Health Initiative volunteers, bringing health care to rural villages in Haiti.

As a part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer are available from 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, April 29, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

University Counseling Service Director Sam Cochran says the University of Iowa community suffers an average of two to three student suicides annually. To bring the campus and local community together to prevent future student suicides, Cochran is leading the three-year $270,970 grant, “Leveraging Campus-Community Collaborations to Enhance Suicide Prevention at the University of Iowa.”

You might be able to save a life if you learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide and know how to steer a student exhibiting these signs to appropriate resources for help.

A new University of Iowa student group strives to strengthen collaboration among health professionals.

An ankle replacement device conceived originally at the University of Iowa debuted this week at the 2013 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting in Chicago.

More than 12,000 babies born in the United States since 1963 have been saved from the devastating effects of untreated congenital conditions, thanks to a few drops of blood collected shortly after birth and the pioneering work of Robert Guthrie. In Iowa, the screening is performed by the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa.

As reports of human infections with a new influenza A (H7N9) virus in China continue to make headlines, the College of Public Health (CPH) is preparing to host the Great Plains Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference. This timely conference will take place April 19-20 in the CPH Building, bringing together public health professionals, researchers, faculty, and students in microbiology, infectious...

Tyler Priest, a UI associate professor of history and geography, argues for increased offshore drilling while Cindy Zipf, the executive director of Clean Ocean Action Inc., based in Sandy Hook, N.J., makes the case against greater offshore drilling in a Wall Street Journal story.

UI alumnus Roby Miller developed a business, TelePharm, that serves those in rural communities who need medications but who do not have access to a pharmacist due to the trend of more pharmacies in small rural communities closing.

Research shows that African-Americans generally have a higher pain tolerance than most people. Moreover, many are under-treated for chronic and acute pain, causing their health to decline. Staja Booker wants to find ways to help African-Americans receive better chronic pain care.

At the heart of a newly designated historic district in Iowa City stands Stuit Hall, which once housed university hospital patients and later became home to art studies. The building now serves as a hub for the clinical psychology program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.