University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced this morning that University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is included yet again on a widely recognized list of the leading hospitals in the United States.

Jonathan Klein, medical director for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, comments on the use of cooling therapy for newborns.

Leaders at the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have announced recipients of the first round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.

Arlene Drack, associate professor of pediatric ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has been granted a $100,000 RPB Physician-Scientist Award by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

A University of Iowa sports medicine expert is hopeful that a collaboration between the Big Ten Conference and Ivy League will shed new light on a peril of athletics that is becoming increasingly more high profile.

Using a unique animal model of cystic fibrosis, a team of scientists from the University of Iowa has discovered a difference between healthy airways and airways affected by cystic fibrosis that leads to reduced bacterial killing in cystic fibrosis airways.

University of Iowa researchers have found that eating unpeeled apples may keep extra pounds and obesity-related diseases at bay.

University of Iowa assistant professor of finance Ty Leverty, who teaches classes about health insurance in the Tippie College of Business, comments on the federal health care reform law.

University of Iowa Health Care, in collaboration with Mercy Cedar Rapids, Mercy Health Network in Des Moines, and Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities, launched a first-of-its-kind alliance to improve health care across the state while decreasing patient costs.

University of Iowa Health Alliance unites more than 50 hospitals and 160 clinics to share expertise, support services, and information technology.

Donna Hammond, professor of anesthesia and pharmacology, succeeds Paul Rothman and will serve until the appointment of a new permanent dean.

The National Institutes of Health is helping a University of Iowa team treat diseases affecting premature babies. A grant, the fourth renewal obtained by John Widness and colleagues, will test alternative approaches for delivering life-sustaining red blood cells.