DES MOINES — Participants in a University of Iowa stuttering experiment six decades ago and the families of now-deceased participants are seeking $10.5 million in damages from the state. The ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- For six months, Mary Nixon and 10 other orphans were relentlessly belittled for every little imperfection in their speech to test the theory that children become stutterers because ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A judge is considering whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the state by six former orphans who took part in a University of Iowa stuttering experiment more than 60 years ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Lawyers are trying to negotiate the settlement of at least five lawsuits filed by orphans who claim they were damaged emotionally after serving as subjects in a stuttering ...

IOWA CITY (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday kept alive a lawsuit filed by orphans who claimed lifelong psychological suffering after unwittingly becoming subjects of a University of Iowa ...

Nothing gets under QCTimes.commenters’ skin like frivolous lawsuits. Last week, the state of Iowa settled with six former residents of the state-run Iowa Soldiers Orphans’ Home in Davenport for ...

A global study has identified the DNA markers for stuttering, providing a genetic link that will pave the way for clinicians to predict which family members will experience the speech disorder ...

To the editor: We read with interest your Aug. 6 article, "Lawsuit filed over 1939 experiment to induce stuttering," regarding the research on stuttering and orphans. In the intervening years, no ...