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.

UI organizations sponsor education events as part of national push to combat prescription-drug abuse.

Michael Kutcher, brother of actor Ashton Kutcher and heart transplant recipient at UI Hospitals and Clinics, will meet with children who also have received a heart transplant and with other pediatric patients who are waiting for a donor heart to become available, during an April 9 tour of Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center.

A trio of UI experts say tobacco company spending and cuts in prevention funding make it difficult to combat lung cancer.

Neuroscientist André Fenton will give a lecture titled “Erasing, Tracing, and Harnessing Memory” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in Shambaugh Auditorium in the University of Iowa Main Library.

A University of Iowa student's essay about how the Internet and social media helped the Ponseti method become the gold standard for the treatment of clubfoot has won a national contest.

Public health approaches do not routinely include a geographical perspective. Kirsten Beyer, a health geographer, will offer a free, public talk on the intersection of geography and public health at a free talk at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, on the University of Iowa campus.

The State Health Registry of Iowa, based in the UI College of Public Health, issued its Cancer in Iowa 2012 report, which includes county-by-county statistics, summaries of new research projects, and a section focused on lung cancer, one of the state's "big four" cancers.

Aside from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, how many other U.S. schools offer advanced education in all dental specialties?