In this podcast, Cara Hamann, professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, discusses her research into the increasing number of bicycle fatalities in Iowa and how public policy can help make roads safer for bicyclists.

E. Dale Abel, chair and DEO of the Department of Internal Medicine in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, will deliver the University of Iowa’s 35th annual Presidential Lecture on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018.

“U.S. News & World Report” has ranked University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in six specialties in the 2017–18 Best Children’s Hospitals list: No. 20 in neonatology, No. 21 in nephrology, No. 34 in cancer, No. 36 in urology, No. 45 in pulmonology, and No. 48 in cardiology/heart surgery.

University of Iowa researchers have identified a brain region involved in cocaine addiction. The findings could lead to targeted drugs or improved behavioral treatments for substance addiction, including opioid dependency.

A study from the UI College of Public Health finds that chemicals used to manufacture plastic food and water containers in recent years do not cause obesity. The chemicals replaced another chemical that was found to cause a host of endocrine-health issues.

A study from the UI College of Public Health finds farmers and farmworkers in the United States continue to take their own lives at a rate higher than that of people who work in other professions and industries.

Peter Damiano, professor of preventive and community dentistry in the University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics and director of the Public Policy Center and the PPC’s Health Policy Research Program, has been invited to serve on the Legislative Advisory Committee of the American Dental Education Association.

An opinion piece by Dan Reed, vice president for research and economic development, notes that proposed cuts in federal research spending will make it difficult for the American economy to stay innovative.

Doug True, the University of Iowa’s former senior vice president for finance and operations and treasurer, will serve as the interim associate vice president and chief financial officer for University of Iowa Health Care, effective June 30, 2017, when current CFO Ken Fisher will retire.

Semifinalist candidates for the UI’s VP for medical affairs will interview in July.

The University of Iowa Health Care bariatric surgery program has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele-emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.