The University of Iowa College of Public Health is honoring three practitioners in Iowa as "Public Health Heroes" for improving wellness and disease prevention in the state. The ceremony takes place today, Thursday, Nov. 8, at the College of Public Health.

A UI team was lauded for taking a unique approach in returning unanticipated genetic results in a story on a contest sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital that challenged researchers to interpret the genomes of families whose children have undiagnosed diseases.

Pianist Michael Brown and cellist Nicholas Canellakis, both of New York, will perform in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at noon Monday, Nov. 19. The performance is free and open to the public.

Two UI experts—David Moser and Andy Peterson—share what causes concussions and how student athletes have more exposure during practice in a story on how football caused one-third of such injuries at Iowa universities last year.

On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will host a Mini Medical School program, "Personal Genetic Information: Its Power, Promise, and Problems."

George Wehby, a researcher in the UI College of Public Health, discovered South American babies and toddlers living at high altitude were more likely to score poorly on early tests of brain development in a recently published study in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Nancy Hall, environmental microbiology manager with the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa, says sunlight is nature's way of cleansing water in an article on the significant health risks posed by Hurricane Sandy.

On Tuesday, Nov. 13, the University of Iowa Health Sciences Policy Council will host a one-day, nonpartisan conference titled "Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland 5: Shaping Iowa’s Health Care Landscape," featuring keynote speaker Susan Dentzer, editor in chief of the policy journal Health Affairs, at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines. There is a fee.

Edward Bell, M.D., a professor of pediatrics with University of Iowa's Children's Hospital and an expert in the care of extremely premature infants, comments on the importance of standardization of care for very premature babies.

During the month of November, people will see red flags on the University of Iowa campus as part of The Red Flag campaign, spearheaded by the UI Men's Anti-Violence Council and the UI Women's Resource and Action Center, to educate college students about dating violence.

How do you recover from a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, which is estimated to have caused billions of dollars in economic losses, as well as emotional damages from the rising death toll? An upcoming UI workshop will examine several recent worldwide disasters in an attempt to answer that question.

Two recent fatalities in Iowa have prompted a University of Iowa College of Public Health program to issue a hazard alert warning farmers and tractor operators about the risk of being run over when starting tractors from a standing position on the ground.