Volker Thomas, UI College of Education professor and chair of the couple and family therapy program, shares why the holiday season can be stressful and explains how to keep calm this year.

Mark Pooley, a former Obermann Graduate Fellow and doctoral student in public health, is combining his interest in biking with research to see if events such as the Winter Warrior Bike Challenge can help researchers create circumstances that will encourage more people to cycle.

UI psychiatrist Jennifer McWilliams says telemedicine has increased psychiatric services in parts of the state that lack them, noting technology is helping address a shortage of doctors in rural areas and connecting specialists to those that need them immediately, including stroke patients.

Since 2009, Ride for the Kids has raised $419,600 to support pediatric brain tumor research and pediatric cardiology research at UI Children’s Hospital.

In recommending new guidelines for blood pressure medication, doctors focused on people age 60 because they “are a unique population and we are concerned about the number of medications that may be required,” says Paul James, head of family medicine at the University of Iowa.

Eliot Shearer used advances in DNA sequencing to develop a single test to screen for all known deafness-causing genes, making diagnostic testing more cost-effective. Shearer is the 2013 Montgomery Dissertation Prize winner in biomedical and health sciences.

A nationally recognized expert panel on which a University of Iowa physician and researcher serves as co-chairman is releasing new guidelines for the management of high blood pressure that would raise the threshold for what is considered dangerous levels for people age 60 and older and could reduce the number of drugs some patients may have to take.

New guidelines, developed by a national committee co-chaired by the UI's Paul James, suggest that people over 60 can have a higher blood pressure than previously recommended before starting treatment to lower it.

Two University of Iowa faculty members, Matthew Nonnenmann and Dan Shane, have been awarded 2014 College of Public Health New Faculty Research Awards. Their research projects will investigate flu transmission and use of emergency departments.

The University of Iowa’s Environmental Health Sciences Research Center is accepting pilot grant proposals from UI investigators for innovative environmental health research.

By evaluating working muscles in mice, University of Iowa researchers have uncovered physiological mechanisms that could lead to new strategies for combating metabolism-related disorders like muscle wasting and obesity.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health has established a new Executive Master of Health Administration (EMHA) degree program. The program is designed to provide working professionals with advanced knowledge and skills to lead multifaceted health care organizations, emphasizing interprofessional teams.