Iowa was a key destination on U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Meyer's road to recovery from severe respiratory failure that nearly took his life. How he ultimately came to the UI is a story of personal strength, family devotion, and the collaboration between UI Heart and Vascular Center specialists and medical personnel from the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Each year since 2009 the University of Iowa Children's Hospital has selected kid captains for every Hawkeye football game. The program recognizes the resiliency and inspiration of current and former patients.

The University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics welcome new patients for treatment in the dental student clinics, which provide comprehensive, affordable care under close supervision by faculty dentists and specialists.

Eggs from the pig whipworm are being tested as a treatment for Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis and other forms of autoimmune disease. The concept was developed at the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa researchers have found that self-awareness is a product of a patchwork of pathways in the brain. The research challenges an accepted theory that three regions in the brain are critical in self-awareness.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has a strong and growing adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program. ECMO is a prolonged heart-lung bypass for critically ill patients with severe, but reversible, respiratory failure or cardiac disease.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced today they have received notification that two national bond rating agencies have favorably affirmed the bond ratings of Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center.

The University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) has received a $4.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ensure the safety of people in Iowa and the Midwest will continue for at least five more years.

The Partnership for Alcohol Safety wants to make sure students are aware that the Iowa City Police Department is conducting proactive party patrols this fall to look for apartment and house parties that are disruptive to neighbors or that have signs that things might be getting out of control.

Research at the UI identified the brain's "gullibility center."

Psychological concepts and the theories of evolutionary development of self-awareness have been called into question by research with "Patient R" at the UI.

Donors from all walks of life give their bodies to the Deeded Body Program in the UI Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology so that faculty can show health sciences students how the human body works.