The University of Iowa College of Nursing is Iowa's leader in making advanced degrees more accessible to registered nurses. The UI offers two tracks for completing a BSN: a traditional on-campus, four-year program and an online RN-to-BSN program.

The UI music therapy program, one of only two in the Big Ten, prepares students for careers as professional therapists.

University of Iowa student Eric Pahl and recent graduate Dalton Shaull recently won $25,000 from the Iowa Economic Development Authority for their startup business, called Organizer. Shaull was motivated to start the project after watching his friend fight off a disease as he waited for a transplant.

By employing a video game system’s computer vision in a hospital room, a University of Iowa research team is pioneering an automated approach to track interactions between health care workers and patients, capturing previously elusive data to support the work of hospital epidemiologists.

Most rural hospitals lack full-time orthopedists, but a new study from the University of Iowa finds that visiting consultant clinics (VCCs) staffed by visiting orthopedic surgeons from larger communities can improve patient access to orthopedic care by up to 50 percent.

A University of Iowa–affiliated lab used an advanced CT scanner to detect COPD-like symptoms in individuals who didn’t present traditional signs of the disease. Read on to learn how the findings could lead to more effective methods of diagnosis and earlier treatment.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has been named one of "100 great hospitals in America 2016" by 'Becker's Hospital Review.'

The UI Center for Hypertension Research selects four multidisciplinary research projects to receive grant funding

A new study by researchers from the University of Iowa, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory suggests there may be an overlap between rare genetic variations linked to bipolar disorder (BD) and those implicated in schizophrenia and autism.

Ryan Boudreau, UI assistant professor of internal medicine, has received a three-year, $438,657 Young Investigator award from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to investigate regulatory mechanisms that control when and where proteins are made within heart cells.

A new study shows a genetic risk factor for five major psychiatric diseases may also be linked to the death of newborn brain cells. At the same time, it suggests a compound currently being developed for use in humans may have therapeutic value for these diseases.

For many years, scientists believed diabetic patients developed retinopathy and, as a result of damage to the eye’s blood vessels, later developed neuropathy. In this new study, however, researchers discovered that the sequence of events is just the opposite.