Rajan Sah, MD, PhD, assistant professor of internal medicine in the UI Carver College of Medicine, has recently received a three-year, $400,000 Carver Trust Young Investigator award to study the role of fat-cell expansion in the development of insulin resistance and diabetes.

By providing workers with a portable pedaling device, Lucas Carr, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology and member of the Obesity Research and Education Initiative at the UI, discovered people who were once sitting all day were now moving at work without even getting up.

Researchers in the UI Department of Pharmacology have received a pair of research grants from the NIH totaling $3.4 million to study new ways to treat obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Thirteen kids ranging in age from 5 to 18 will serve as the UI Children's Hospital Kid Captains during the 2015 Hawkeye football season.

To help everyone make a smooth transition, the University of Iowa is offering a list of experts who can talk about everything from helping a child get on the right sleep schedule to preventing back-related injuries from carrying backpacks that are too heavy.

Patients with hypertension benefit from interacting with a medical team that includes a pharmacist. Two studies showed pharmacist-included care teams delivered more hands-on and tailored medication regimens to patients, which yielded more effective blood-pressure control results than for those patients who did not have a pharmacist on hand.

As the availability of and demand for genetic testing continues to rise, more genetic counselors are needed to assist patients in interpreting their test results. The Iowa Institute of Human Genetics Summer Internship Program, now in its third year, allows interns to explore various career opportunities in genetic counseling.

By using electrical stimulation to activate the amygdala, a group of University of Iowa researchers has identified areas of the human brain in which breathing is controlled and, in some cases, impaired, providing an important insight into sudden unexplained death in epilepsy.

​Several streets around the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will see heavy traffic Saturday morning as thousands of RAGBRAI riders pass by, and drivers are advised to consider alternate routes to the facilities.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced today that U.S. News & World Report has named University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City to its annual "Best Hospitals" rankings. The state’s only comprehensive academic medical center was also named Iowa’s best hospital.

Max Otoadese is one of 39 high school students from across the state, nation, and world pursuing hands-on science at the UI this summer, thanks to the College of Education Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program. The rigorous, five-week residential research program also provides 3 semester hours of college credit.

A new University of Iowa study is the first to evaluate the relationship between receiving care at federally qualified health centers and the rate of hospital stays and emergency department visits for potentially preventable conditions among individuals who receive both Medicare and Medicaid.