The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Trenton Place, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program to examine how oxygen levels within pancreatic cancer tumors affect the cancer's ability to spread to distant organs.

UI Health Care is hosting 11 simulcast sessions of TEDMED, an event gathering 1,300 adventurous thinkers and doers from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines April 10-13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City will host an open house event to introduce its Fragile X Clinic from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Center for Disabilities and Development, 100 Hawkins Drive.

New rock-fracturing technology has brought oil boom times to North Dakota. However, a UI researcher says the roads leading to the state’s oil riches may be paved with a potential health hazard.

It’s now official. Des Moines is the formal site of a regional branch campus for the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. A recent agreement between the Des Moines Area Medical Education Consortium and the UI Carver College of Medicine cements the arrangement for the next 10 years.

The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program aims to turn promising students like Emily Higdon into tomorrow's nursing program faculty, addressing a critical shortage.

The leaders of University of Iowa Health Care and Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids today, Wednesday, April 4, jointly announced plans to collaborate on the design and development of a new nonprofit health care organization that will enhance the health of communities in the Corridor and beyond.

New software developed by UI student and faculty will aid in preparations for evacuation during future floods.

The Midwest Melanoma Partnership, an initiative to advance melanoma research and improve care for patients with melanoma, was launched this month by a group of physicians, researchers, and patient advocates following a meeting at the University of Iowa.

Bill Field, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the UI, writes about the danger of radon, and why he believes the EPA shouldn't be allowed to drop the ball by eliminating funding to help states promote radon awareness.

Leaders of Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City announced Monday, April 2, that they are now caring for area children in a joint pediatric specialty clinic located in Bettendorf.