Michael Donahoo, 61, tried for more than a decade to manage the increasingly debilitating pain plaguing his left shoulder. Luckily, UI Health Care orthopedic surgery team is the first in Iowa to use the pyrocarbon implant for patients with advanced shoulder arthritis.

Clinical trials offer access to the latest, most advanced treatments. Understanding how they work and what to expect can help you make an informed decision.

A few weeks after giving birth to her first child in May 2024, Courtney Crowder was shopping with her newborn son, Clark, strapped to her chest. As she and her husband were wrangling what they needed as part of their new-parent life, a woman came up and said hello.

University of Iowa Health Care is reopening a once-closed inpatient unit at its downtown campus as part of its continued commitment to enhancing community health care. The space has been renovated into an inpatient family medicine unit that will welcome its first patients this July. Commonly referred to by staff as 3 Center, the 26-bed unit closed several years before UI Health Care assumed…

Former University of Iowa punter Nick Phelps knew it was bad as soon as he hit the ground. A teammate trying to block the ball during a punting drill in October 2021 had instead collided with him shin-on-shin. “When I lifted my leg up, I could see bone sticking out, and where my toes were supposed to be, I saw my heel. My leg was in an L shape,” he says.

Brian Dlouhy, MD, a neurosurgeon at University of Iowa Health Care who specializes in Chiari malformation and complex craniovertebral junction abnormalities, has seen firsthand how these conditions can impact lives—from babies to seniors.

When an injury stands in your way, recovery can feel like a long and daunting process. Yet, with the right tools and resources, you can recover like a pro athlete.

A pair of white Birkenstock clogs sits on a shelf in Suzy Hammer-White’s office. They’re falling apart, soles worn down to the cork, and wrinkled in a way that suggests they’ve seen miles of hospital hallways.

University of Iowa Health Care's Medical Toxicology Clinic opened last summer to help meet the ongoing medical needs of patients exposed to toxic substances.

In 2019, Lisa Dickerson of Newton, Iowa, was celebrating the Fourth of July with family and friends when a firework unexpectedly malfunctioned, setting off a series of explosions on the ground. Dickerson was hit directly in the face and burned badly.