Blake Bonta and his father share an unfortunate connection: both were diagnosed with brain tumors as kids. Now, father and son are healthy and excited for Blake to be the 10th Kid Captain of the 2025 Hawkeyes football season.

By the end of 2023, Marcia Robinson-Rouse needed two hands to count all that she had lost as her health declined from Meniere’s disease, an inner ear condition that usually affects one ear, causing vertigo and hearing loss.

Respiratory viruses are with us all year long but tend to spike in fall and winter. There is no official start date, which means that now is the right time to make sure you are ready for when the three most common viruses (flu, COVID-19 and RSV) are at their peak.

Having dealt with spontaneous fractures since she was 2 years old, Harper Atkinson may be the only person in the world with her specific bone disease. Harper, the ninth Kid Captain of the 2025 Iowa Hawkeyes football season, and her twin brother, Knox, were born in 2015 at University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center.

When colleagues are asked to describe Nathalee Stemper, the same words pop up: Compassionate. Collaborative. Courageous. Competent. Communicative.

Luke Johnston’s parents searched the country for a surgeon who could perform the high-risk operation their son needed for his rare medical condition. They found that expertise close to home at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

Micah Norby, the seventh Kid Captain of the 2025 Iowa football season, appeared to be healthy until he started frequently falling around age 5 and seemed to lag behind his soccer teammates.

After undergoing multiple surgeries, a patient in the Adult Acute Care Unit at the university campus was understandably anxious about adjusting to life with a tracheostomy.

University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital is once again ranked the state’s No. 1 children’s hospital and No. 12 in the Midwest region in the 2025-26 “Best Children’s Hospitals” rankings published by U.S. News & World Report.

Community members will have access to University of Iowa Health Care’s family medicine services at a new location later this year. Patients will begin receiving care starting Monday, Dec. 15, at the 33,000-square-foot facility at 2751 Northgate Drive on the east side of Iowa City.