While traveling abroad in 2002, finance major Amanda Richter was hospitalized with life-threatening bacterial meningitis. She returned to the UI that fall in a wheelchair, but after major surgeries and grafts, she can now walk again with a cane. “That's life. You adjust,” Amanda says. “I've always been a positive person.”

A University of Iowa study finds the state’s graduated driver’s license program, in place for 10 years, could use some tweaking to prevent crashes and save lives. John Lundell, deputy director of the UI Injury Prevention Research Center, says Iowa was among the first states to launch a GDL program, but now changes are needed.

The Kid Captain program, developed as a partnership between University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and the Iowa Hawkeyes, brings stories of determination, strength, and hope to football game days.

When University of Iowa staffer Damian Simcox needed to fix a leaky heart valve, he didn't have to go far. The UI Heart and Vascular Center is a leader in heart valve treatment and has been performing minimally invasive heart surgery since 2008—the only hospital in the region to consistently do so.

The new College of Public Health Building brings together faculty, students, and staff to create a vibrant home for public health learning and collaboration.

Over the last few years, alumna and former nurse Donna Glee Reim has showed up in some big-name films, putting her nursing experience to work in some unexpected ways.

Psychiatry and family medicine faculty member Michelle Weckmann studied the frequency of delirium in advanced cancer patients, and found that it is common due to many factors.

UI psychiatrist Ricardo Jorge comments on the possibility that a traumatic brain injury led to a U.S. soldier's murderous rampage in Afghanistan.

Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Public Health found the antibiotic-resistant bacterium—which causes some 185,000 cases of food poisoning each year—in about 7 percent of pork products tested.

A $302,400 grant from Ronald McDonald House Charities will train physicians from around the world in the pioneering clubfoot treatment developed by late University of Iowa faculty member Ignacio Ponseti.

A $554,000 gift from the family of a University of Iowa alumnus will establish the Marvin F. Hall Family Diabetes Research Fund at the UI Carver College of Medicine.

College of Dentistry investigators are studying how nanoscience techniques may help bone and soft tissue adhere to medical devices, potentially making for better implants.