University of Iowa News

An Iowa woman is grateful for the heroic neighbor who rushed into a burning house to save her 85 year old mother.

Two legislators are criticizing University of Iowa officials over plans to spent $130,000 to send 35 hospital workers to Orlando, Fla., for several days of training offered at a center connected with Disney World.

Efforts to require flu shots for health workers in order to protect vulnerable patients are being abandoned by some major health systems because of legal challenges and vaccine shortages.

When Mary Grimm started at ACT, it was 1968, she was fresh out of high school, and there were 100 employees.

Sarah Palin has a new book out, and the former Alaska governor's rise to fame has brought more notoriety to her native state than it's had since the United States dropped $7.2 million in gold to buy it from Russia in 1867.

Despite deep budget cuts, members of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are heading to a conference at Disney World.

Some University of Iowa employees are 'gravely concerned' about a plan to solicit donations from patients at UI Hospitals and Clinics, an official that represents employees on UI health plans said.

University of Iowa officials hope to reopen their fire- and water-damaged campus hotel in time for parents' weekend.

The first study involved 161 nine to 12-year-olds and college students who played a non-violent game, a violent but cartoonish game or, age permitting, a violent teen game.

Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by admin . Fire crews respond to the Iowa Memorial Union Thursday morning for a fire in a utility closet.

The competency hearing for Jackie Paul Glascock, Sr., 66, of Cincinnati, accused of first degree murder, originally scheduled for Oct.

Five USD professors were hailed as innovators in their respective fields as they were bestowed the President's Award for Research Excellence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The University of Iowa is halting plans to ask University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics outpatients to sign a consent form at check-in so the UI Foundation can contact them about donations, school officials announced Tuesday.

The University of Iowa has put a patient donation plan on hold. Some employees and state lawmakers criticized the plan to ask outpatients at University Hospitals to sign a consent form allowing them to be contacted about making donations.

Incumbent Connie Champion retained her seat and newcomers Susan Mims and Terry Dickens earned spots on the Iowa City Council on a day that saw a historically low voter turnout percentage.

Police have arrested a man they say fired shots during an armed robbery in Reedley.

Depressed people tend to report more physical symptoms than they actually experience, a new study finds.

Ross Broderick is a survivor of breast cancer, which is far less common among men than women.

The trial of a former University of Iowa football player accused of sexual abuse has been delayed until next year.

While seeking donations from patients is becoming a nationwide hospital industry standard, some Iowa lawmakers are displeased with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' plan to do so.