The UI is one of  11 Centers for Excellence in Pain Education selected by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. The  centers will help improve pain education for undergraduate and graduate health professional students. 

A University of Iowa researcher is working with the Veterans Administration on a pilot program to help female veterans suffering from postpartum depression.

Andrew Pieper, professor of psychiatry and member of the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute, has been selected for membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies

A new report commissioned by NASA highlights many risks connected with putting more humans in space for longer periods of time. Those risks include muscle and bone loss, psychological health, and nutrition, Dr. Carol Scott-Conner, professor of surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, told CNBC.

Three University of Iowa computer engineering students created a cutting-edge robot, made for when patients are under the knife. The idea came from a UI doctor who said for years brain surgeons have faced a major annoyance in the operating room.

Dr. Eric Dyken of the UI Sleep Disorders Center fields questions about the benefits and drawbacks of sharing a room with a sleeping partner. He also discusses how gene changes in an aging brain affect circadian rhythm, and new research on the dangers of giving melatonin to young children.

2015 was a busy, fruitful year at the University of Iowa. Take a couple of minutes to reflect on the research, service, academic, and athletic endeavors that made the past year one to remember.

January class offered by UI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center is taking a group of students to an eye clinic in India where they will look for efficiencies and cost savings so the clinic can expand the vision services it offers to the poor.

Dan Murphy graduated from the UI medical school and eventually became team doctor for UNI's basketball team, but now he's providing desperately needed health care services in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation of East Timor.

A UI music professor received an unique gift from her husband -- a kidney. Wayne and Kristin Thelander had the dual surgery around Thanksgiving. Doctors at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where the procedure was performed, said about 10 percent of living donations happen between spouses.

A new University of Iowa-led study, published in "Cell Metabolism," has identified a hormone that appears to be linked to sugar cravings and consumption. The research could improve diet and help diabetic and obese patients.

In much of the developing world, fossil fuels and electricity are too expensive to be options for cooking. Instead, people there use wood burning stoves that create environmental impacts of their own, including desertification of the forests that supply the wood, and soot released when the wood doesn't burn completely.