Leaders of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City announced today, Friday, Dec. 4, that the state’s only academic medical center has won a prestigious national award for its use of health information technology to improve patient safety and outcomes.The 2014 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recognizes the outstanding achievement of organizations that use health information technology...

For a second year in a row, the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) has named University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics an Equality Leader in its national survey based on nondiscrimination policies and care for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) community.Among the more than 1,500 institutions evaluated in this year’s survey, less than a third received the Equality...

University of Iowa Dance Marathon and ISU Dance Marathon are teaming up this week for the One for One campaign. The goal is to raise $1 for every child treated at the UI Children's Hospital last year—$57,889.

A high performance rural health care system, incorporating principles of affordability, accessibility, community focus, high quality, and patient centeredness, could be built upon existing rural primary care services, according to new policy paper from the Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel.

A University of Iowa study provides a deeper understanding of how the cancer-causing KRAS gene turns off tumor suppressor genes, and identifies a key enzyme in the process. The findings suggest that this enzyme, known as TET1, may be an important target for cancer diagnostics and treatment.

The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) has selected 15 of the most significant randomized controlled trials that influence the practice of physical therapy to ever be published.One of the trials was conducted by Gregory Schmidt, MD, professor of internal medicine, and Rhonda Barr, DPT, CCS, clinical specialist in the Department of Rehabilitation Therapies.Schmidt and Barr were co-authors of...

Three University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded the distinction of 2014 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

It’s not technically winter yet, but it is sure starting to feel like it. As the temperature begins to drop and the snow flurries fly, UI College of Nursing experts offer steps people can take to maintain good health, even in the harsh Iowa winter.

When Liam was 2 months old, the Feeleys came to University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and met with pediatric orthopedic surgeon Ericka Lawler, who put the family at ease.

After his son's harrowing war experience and difficulty assimilating to college and civilian life, College of Dentistry's Rick Williamson has played an active role in helping veterans at the University of Iowa transition successfully from military service to higher-education studies and careers.

More than 300 middle school students, primarily from Eastern Iowa, were in Coralville in mid November to participate in the 18th annual University of Iowa International Day for Human Rights. This year students learned about “The Human Right to a Clean Environment.”

Home to one of the nation’s best hearing labs, the University of Iowa has now developed the most comprehensive genetic testing platform for deafness across the globe. Called OtoSCOPE, this technology allows researchers to pinpoint the exact genetic changes that cause people to lose their hearing.