The Iowa Newborn Screening Program, which involves personnel from UI Hospitals and Clinics and the State Hygienic Laboratory, was selected for NewSTEPs 360, a national initiative to save the lives of babies by reducing the time from birth to identification of serious and often life-threatening conditions.

"2016 Cancer in Iowa," a report released March 30, predicts an estimated 16,600 new cancers will be diagnosed this year among Iowa residents.

Dr. Joseph Turek, chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital—and Grey’s Anatomy enthusiast—offers his opinion on how realistically the new NBC TV drama Heartbeat portrays the profession.

"Forbes" magazine has once again rated University of Iowa Health Care as one of the best places to work in the U.S. UIHC was named the No. 7 employer overall and the No. 1 employer in the health care industry category across the country.

At Match Day 2016, Whitney Kaefring and her peers in the inaugural class of the UI Carver College of Medicine Rural Iowa Scholars Program (CRISP) learned where they will do their medical residency training.

Through internships, traditional rotations, and dedicated education-unit experiences, UI Hospitals and Clinics nurses like Judy Swafford provide thousands of hours of work experience, learning opportunities, and professional development to hundreds of student nurses every year.

UI Hospitals and Clinics was one of 15 entities honored in the Major Teaching Hospitals category of the most recent Truven Health Analytics annual 100 Top Hospitals study, and received a special designation for high performance and fast long-term improvement.

University of Iowa student Caroline Wadman and her faculty mentor, Gerene Denning, will head to Washington, D.C., to participate in a selective research showcase called Posters on the Hill. Wadman's project focuses on ATV-related deaths and injuries and will inform educational materials.

UI Health Care faculty and staff are encouraged to share innovations in patient safety and quality improvement, education, and research at the Fourth Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium. Works in progress are also welcome.

When Grinnell's ASI Signage wanted to expand its market and start selling its products around the world, the UI's Institute for International Business was ready to help.

Parents and guardians of current or former patients have until March 31 to nominate their child to be a 2016 Kid Captain.

Retrieving healthy veins from legs for use in heart bypass procedures presents risks and complications on top of those related to the heart surgery. What would it take to develop an artificial alternative? That wondering recently led medical entrepreneur Manny Villafaña to researchers at the University of Iowa.