Come learn how you can join Iowa’s top health system in changing medicine and changing lives! With open nursing positions at all UI Health Care locations, including the downtown, university, and new North Liberty campus, now is the perfect time to explore a fulfilling career that lets you grow, learn, and make a difference for Iowans.

Patients with coronary artery disease who experience restenosis—a re-narrowing of a heart artery that had been opened with a stent—now have a new treatment option at University of Iowa Health Care.

If your shoulder pain doesn’t go away with rest, medicine, or therapy, you might consider that a shoulder replacement is the right choice for you. Also, if you have pain that affects you at night and disrupts your sleep, you might consider a shoulder replacement.

For many people, summer is a time to relax and take a much-needed vacation or travel. But for blood centers, summer is far more stressful; it’s a time when donation numbers and supplies dwindle.

BE FAST is two things, really. It’s what you do when you spot the signs of a stroke: BE FAST in getting the victim to emergency medical care. It holds the key to recognizing someone may be having a stroke. Just remember these BE FAST words: Balance Eyes Face Arms Speech Time, not a symptom but a reminder to get medical help quickly

Every year, the Great Iowa Nurses program recognizes nurses across the state who go above and beyond every day to provide safe, compassionate care for their patients and share their knowledge and leadership with their communities.

Pertussis, a respiratory illness, is circulating in our community. Who is vulnerable, how does it spread, and how can we stay healthy? To learn more, we talked to infectious disease expert Melanie Wellington, MD, PhD. People may know pertussis as whooping cough. It is a highly contagious bacterial infection, known for severe coughing that can cause fits or “whooping.” When the coughing fits are…

As any fan of the old Schoolhouse Rock songs knows, "Three is the magic number." In the case of the Pinckney family, that takes the form of triplets — three healthy baby boys to complete this happy family from Coal Valley, Illinois.

When Nick Vance woke up one morning in November 2024, it felt like every other day. The 37-year-old took a shower and started getting ready for work. He walked out to his living room and addressed the voice-based virtual assistant connected to many of his household devices by saying, “Alexa, turn the lights on please.” But what came out was, as he calls it, “word salad.”

When you need a procedure as complex as open-heart surgery, you should choose the best, most experienced care team. That is exactly what University of Iowa Health Care offers to heart patients, says Mohammad Bashir, MBBS — and it’s one of the reasons the cardiothoracic surgeon joined the UI clinical faculty a year after completing his surgical training at Iowa in 2012.