"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.

Members of the media are invited to cover a field trip with more than 100 middle school students from West Liberty, Iowa on the University of Iowa campus through the UI College of Education's Project HOPE (Healthcare, Occupations, Preparation, and Exploration) Friday, Jan. 10.

A lot of things we take for granted daily—from starting the car to turning on the faucet—were a little harder today: “Things just break when it’s cold..they’re under more stress, and it’s when you need them most,” says UI professor Wilf Nixon.

If upcoming tests verify the efficacy of a staph vaccine developed by UI microbiologist Patrick Schlievert's research team, that would be a remarkable scientific achievement for the University of Iowa, and it would be an immense contribution to world health.

Humboldt native and chair of the UI Department of Microbiology Patrick Schlievert heads the research team that has developed a vaccine for staphylococcus aureus bacteria: “This has the potential to prevent more than a million infections per year."

A new University of Iowa study finds that regularly scheduled visiting clinics staffed by physicians from larger cities increase access to urological care for underserved rural Iowans, following up on an earlier study that shows such clnics also increase access to cancer care for residents of rural areas.