University of Iowa Health Care researchers have developed a tiny drug-delivery device that could offer patients with bladder cancer a less invasive and less time-consuming way to receive treatment.

For more than 35 years at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Val C. Sheffield, MD, PhD, has inspired those around him — not just through groundbreaking discoveries in genetics but through kindness, curiosity, and generosity.

If you live in Iowa, you’ve probably seen news stories about cancer in our state. The headlines can be upsetting — cancer rates are rising, and people are trying to figure out why. But there’s good news, too. Right now, more people and organizations than ever before are working together to fight cancer in Iowa. Across the state, teams are following a strong action plan created by the Iowa Cancer…

Growing up in Hopkinton, Iowa, Andrea Fjelstul-Bonert saw firsthand how gaps in rural health care affect families. Now, as a CRISP scholar and family medicine resident, she’s working to close them.

Ashley Hurd-Jackson’s first deliveries were pigs on the family farm. Now she is training to deliver babies — and better access to care — across rural Iowa.

Clinicians at the University of Iowa were recently awarded a competitive grant for a multi-faceted quality improvement project using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve advanced prostate cancer care. The project is backed by a collaborative funding initiative launched by American Urological Association (AUA), Pfizer, and Astellas earlier this year.

Algona, Iowa, isn’t just where Reese Rosenmeyer grew up. It’s a main driver behind her desire to pursue medicine.

First-year physician assistant (PA) student Shirin Khosravi’s White Coat Ceremony was nearly a decade in the making. Khosravi moved to the United States from in Iran in 2009, determined to pursue an education in her new home country. She settled in southern California, where she trained to be a phlebotomist at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. Then she worked at Mission Hospital, a Level 2…

A new study by University of Iowa researchers provides a better understanding of rural youths’ attitudes toward firearms and firearm safety measures, as well as their experiences with firearm violence and school lockdowns.