A more than $1 million dollar gift from the Sharer family will help fund diabetes research at the University of Iowa's Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center.

The State Hygienic Lab at the University of Iowa receives high marks for its newborn screening program, in which tests are completed quickly and efficiently, in some cases with life-saving results for babies.

UI psychiatrist Robert Robinson offers comments and analysis of a new study that shows people who suffer traumatic brain injuries face an elevated risk of death from suicide or accidents for years to come.

By this time next winter, the federal government aims to have better recommendations about when seasonal flu sufferers should return to school or work thanks to an international study that includes the University of Iowa.

More than 100 eighth-graders spent a day at the UI hosted by the College of Education with support from 20 other departments, the culmination of a seven-week long UI program designed to introduce careers in the health sciences to rural Iowa students.

"Love Lasts Forever" is a journal created by two members of UI Children's Hospital's palliative care team for parents who have lost a child but still have memories, joys, and thoughts to express.

Ibrahim Ozbolat, University of Iowa assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and co-director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group, is featured in a new video produced by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

UI emergency medicine specialist Hans House says severity is a sign of influenza: "When you have that high fever (102 degrees or more), and your whole body aches, and you can't even get off the couch because you're so miserable, that's probably the flu."

The University of Iowa College of Public Health, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Public Health, has released the 2013 Iowa Health Fact Book, a broad-ranging report covering the health and health-related behaviors of Iowans.

University of Iowa leaders today (Thursday, Jan. 9) announced improvements to patient and visitor parking, effective Monday, Jan. 13.

New University of Iowa research suggests that using heart size rather than body weight when matching heart donors and recipients would produce better outcomes.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Iowa have found that a heart's size—and not the donor's gender—can lead to better outcomes for the recipient in heart transplantations.