Matthew Rizzo, a UI professor of neurology, comments on the difficulty of assessing various factors on driver safety, in a story on the impact of sleep aids and drowsy driving, which also mentions UI's National Advanced Driving Simulator as a resource used by drug companies.

Dr. Sonali Patel, a pediatric cardiologist who helped found a childhood obesity clinic at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics two years ago, has seen steady increases in the number of Iowa children with complications from obesity.

Iowa City Police continue to follow leads in the reported armed robbery of a cab driver at 10:05 p.m. Sunday near Melrose Avenue and Samoa Drive but said Monday morning that they don't believe the situation presents any further safety threat for the area.

Patricia Quinlisk, Iowa's state epidemiologist, says that Michael Last, a parasitologist at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the UI, is a "good, good, good microbiologist" after he first recognized the microscopic parasite that caused an outbreak of diarrheal disease in Iowa.

Iowa corrections officials are developing a new treatment program for domestic abusers with help from Erika Lawrence, a UI psychology professor.

Renee Anthony, UI assistant professor of occupational and environmental health, says it's a great idea to have fundamental safety hazards and preventive measures incorporated into an educational program on grain bin management.

LaMar Grafft, a rural health and safety specialist in the UI College of Public Health, says that cautionary signs on the backs of buggies are important in making them visible to motorists in a story on an Amish teenager who died in an accident.

A new UI Public Policy Center study says that 3 percent of Iowa children do not have health insurance, one of the lowest rates in the nation that could nonetheless be improved.

A student in a University of Iowa camp reported an assault that occurred in downtown Iowa City in the early afternoon of Monday, July 15.

On Monday the University of Iowa began to take down the flood control walls surrounding Art Building West, a process officials hope to complete next week.

An investigation is under way to determine the source of a rare intestinal illness that can cause symptoms lasting for more than one month.

With water levels remaining stable in the Coralville Lake and the Iowa River, the University of Iowa is beginning to plan the dismantling of HESCO barriers and other temporary floodwalls around campus.