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...
Harper Still loves to dance and help her mother cook, as many 3-year-olds do.
But before becoming the Kid Captain for this week’s game against Purdue, Harper’s parents noticed she was experiencing...
Patients at ChildServe in Coralville no longer have to drive to Des Moines in order to receive physiatric therapy.
Fred Klingbeil, the only pediatric physiatrist in Iowa, began making visits to the ChildServe...
The University of Iowa Public Health College recently received a $4.3 million grant renewal from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to examine how factors in early pregnancy may increase...
While most kids ask their parents to make their favorite foods, 9-year-old Noah Hodgins loves to satisfy his taste buds with his own creations. The Cedar Rapids native aspires to become a chef.
Noah...
A team from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the College of Public Health won a three-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project to deliver gene editing...
After two years of research, researchers at the University of Iowa and Oregon Health & Science University appear to have discovered a way to prevent nerve damage caused by chemotherapy drugs.
Their...
