Rush University Medical Center looked to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic's 'Furry Friends' program, a pet visitation program, as a successful model for allowing seriously ill patients to have pets in their hospital rooms for comfort and support. (Note: A paid subscription is required.)

Scott Spak, assistant director of environmental policy at the UI Public Policy Center, discusses water quality problems in landfills, and David Osterberg, clinical associate professor in the College of Public Health, comments on recycling.

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and its students are trying to fill the state’s growing need for doctors in both rural and metropolitan areas.

Having diabetes doubles a person’s risk of dying after a heart attack, but the reason for the increased risk is not clear. A new University of Iowa study suggests the link may lie in the over-activation of an important heart enzyme.

Iowa's shortage of nurses is being addressed through a University of Iowa program that allows place-bound Iowans to get a full UI degree without leaving their home communities.

University of Iowa students and members of the ministry at the Newman Catholic Student Center shaved their heads to show solidarity and raise money to support children with cancer during a St. Baldrick's Foundation event.

The University of Iowa is joining forces with two health-care organizations in a partnership to improve care for patients with liver disease.

Three University of Iowa College of Education leaders have received Better Futures for Iowans grants to support projects in dentistry, disability, and world language education. Through the outreach work of Saba Ali, Nicholas Colangelo, and James Stachowiak, Iowans benefit across the state.

Susannah Longmuir with UI Health Care says that the goal of a recently published study is to identify children with amblyopia, sometimes called lazy eye, as young as possible so that they can start treatment before they have an eye problem or it gets worse.

Consumers wanting to know the cost of hip replacement will find it's difficult to find out ahead of time how much the procedure will cost, according to Jaime Rosenthal, one of the authors of a study published by JAMA in its publication, JAMA Internal Medicine.

A new study published by University of Iowa researchers discovered that many hospitals are unable to tell patients what the cost of a hip replacement will be, and for those who can, the costs can vary widely.

Forty percent of top-ranked and 36 percent of non-top-ranked hospitals were unable to provide a price estimate for a total hip replacement procedure. Moreover, among the hospitals that could provide an estimate, the cost quoted for the procedure ranged from $11,100 to $125,798—a greater than ten-fold difference.