Thirteen current and former UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital patients have been selected to represent the hospital as Kid Captains during the Iowa Hawkeyes’ 2018 football season.

Peggy Nopoulos has been named chair and departmental executive officer (DEO) of the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, following a national search in which she was recommended as the top finalist for the position.

UI College of Pharmacy researchers have created a virtual, web-based pharmacy service that offers Iowa primary-care providers in small towns and rural areas additional help in managing chronic health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. The team is looking to expand the service in Iowa and beyond.

“U.S. News & World Report” has ranked University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in four specialties in the new 2018–19 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online June 26.

University of Iowa Health Care patients are the first in the nation to have access to a new technology that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose diabetic retinopathy. The technology, IDx-DR, is the only medical device authorized by the FDA that uses AI for the autonomous detection of diabetic retinopathy.

A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health and Carver College of Medicine published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that children who have autism spectrum disorder are twice as likely to suffer from food allergies than children who do not have autism.

UI student Ishaya David is pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy and a master’s degree in public health as part of a long-term goal to provide sex education and substance use disorder services to youth in his native Nigeria.

IowaMADE sells surgical devices developed and designed by UI faculty and students.

A study from the UI College of Public Health finds that children with autism spectrum disorder are more than twice as likely to have food allergies than children who do not have ASD, though it did was not able to determine if the two are linked.

A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that children who have autism spectrum disorder are more likely to have allergies than children who do not, and are more than twice as likely to have food allergies.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more than twice as likely to suffer from a food allergy than children who do not have ASD, suggesting immunological dysfunction as a possible risk factor for the development of the disease.

The UI College of Public Health, Roy J. and Licille A. Carver College of Medicine, and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences are part of a federal program that seeks to build a DNA database of more than 1 million Americans that would be used to develop precision medicine.