Very-low-birth-weight babies who undergo major surgery appear to have an increased risk of death or subsequent neurodevelopmental impairment, according to a new study published June 16 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Pamela Keel, a nationally recognized expert on eating disorders, will deliver two public lectures during a visit to the UI campus June 24 and 25. Keel's visit is co-sponsored by the Obesity Research and Educational Initiative and the Department of Psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

For Rob Nelson, working side-by-side with his sons on the new UI Children's Hospital has special meaning: "I wouldn't have my family if it wasn't for that hospital."

Veterinary students from Iowa State University give away toy golden retrievers named Josh to comfort child patients at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Medical students participated in a grain bin rescue training exercise at the University of Iowa so they're more familiar with the kinds of injuries that can be associated with that kind of an accident.

The University of Iowa Children's Hospital has been ranked among the best in the country in the latest annual survey by U.S. News & World Report.

A look inside the Iowa Ladies Football Academy, which has raised $1 million for children's health in its first four years.

The Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa is offering a Women’s Sexual Violence Support Group beginning Wednesday, June 18 and continuing until Wednesday, Aug. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the RVAP offices, located at 332 S. Linn St., Suite 100 in Iowa City.

Now entering its sixth year, the FUTURE in Biomedicine program places faculty and students from Iowa's primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI) with research faculty in the UI Carver College of Medicine for nine weeks during the summer.

U.S. News and World Report has ranked University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in eight out of ten specialty areas in its 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospitals listings.

As 3D printing technology matures, scientists can foresee the day when we "bio-print" replacement human organs—ending transplant waiting lists, but science may push the technology even farther, says UI Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group's Ibrahim Ozbolat.

Iowa City's Working Group Theatre and the UI College of Public Health teamed up in an effort to measure the impact of an anti-bullying play on its junior high audiences earlier this year.