A study from the UI College of Public Health finds that children with autism spectrum disorder are more than twice as likely to have food allergies than children who do not have ASD, though it did was not able to determine if the two are linked.

A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that children who have autism spectrum disorder are more likely to have allergies than children who do not, and are more than twice as likely to have food allergies.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more than twice as likely to suffer from a food allergy than children who do not have ASD, suggesting immunological dysfunction as a possible risk factor for the development of the disease.

The UI College of Public Health, Roy J. and Licille A. Carver College of Medicine, and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences are part of a federal program that seeks to build a DNA database of more than 1 million Americans that would be used to develop precision medicine.

A study led by Wei Bao of the UI College of Public Health finds 1 in 7 adult Americans have tried e-cigarettes, but fewer people are continuing to use the devices.

Kayla Faust, a graduate student in the UI College of Public Health, is using the university's National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) for a research study that hopes to reduce the number of crashes involving agricultural vehicles on rural roads.

Kayla Faust, a graduate student in the UI College of Public Health, is using the university’s National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) for a research study that hopes to reduce the number of crashes involving agricultural vehicles on rural roads.

While self-driving vehicles have been involved in occasional cars crashes recently, researchers at the University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) who test and develop autonomous vehicles say they can still be safer than when humans are at the wheel.

Nine students and a faculty member from the College of Dentistry were recognized for their achievements in the field of dentistry at the annual banquet of the Mu Chapter of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honorary Society.

Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, who earned her MFA in playwriting at Iowa, was named one of two winners of an international playwriting competition.

The University of Iowa is leading a movement to change the way science is taught at K–12 schools statewide. With funding from the National Science Foundation, educators at the UI are revising the science curriculum and recruiting and training teachers to better educate Iowa children in the sciences.

The Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities is working with Mason City on roughly 20 projects throughout the community, ranging from updating the comprehensive plan to designing murals to developing an aging-in-place campaign. Several UI groups are focused exclusively on the North End, aiming to improve residents’ quality of life.