A recent study by the University of Iowa’s Psychiatry Department, presented in November at the 2018 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego, showed that inflammation in the womb can cause...
A University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics pulmonologist is preparing to test a more permanent treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
UI Clinical Associate Professor Alejandro Comellas...
In a presentation to the Carver College of Medicine on Wednesday evening, UI Vice President for Medical Affairs Brooks Jackson briefed faculty and staff on the strengths and challenges facing UI Health...
Ten-year-old Garret Schuster loves to dance.
Because of a blood disorder, Garret can’t participate in contact sports and instead he uses competitive dance as an outlet. Garret, an Epworth, Iowa,...
A multitude of tests resulted in no answers for the Jackson family about why Livia Jackson had episodes of extreme vomiting.
It wasn’t until Livia came to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has given the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics a three-year, $1.5 million grant to train providers in treating patients addicted...
UI Dance Marathon 25 has announced it will fund a $2.2 million endowment to the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital to hire a child life specialist.
Child life specialists work with children and families...
Seventy-seven-year-old Jan Wicks recently became the first Iowan to undergo a tricuspid valve procedure without having open-heart surgery, thanks to the latest technology available at the University of...
Researchers at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University have teamed up to develop a new influenza vaccine that, if it is efficient in combating the disease, could protect users for up to a decade.
UI...
Seven-year-old Mason Gonzalez has his own way of communicating and telling his “mom and dad he loves them.”
Mason, a native of Jesup, Iowa, will be the Kid Captain for Iowa’s football game against...
Iowa could face a physician-assistant shortage in the next 15 years because of aging personnel and an increasing need to fill positions in rural communities.
In a study conducted by the Tippie College...
Looking out the window of his daughter’s hospital room at El Paso Children’s Hospital, Jesse Tovar saw nothing but traffic. One day, he ventured to the other side of the hospital wing to see Jefferson...
