Health Care and Medicine

The Democratic candidate for governor hosted a roundtable discussion with rural Iowa health care stakeholders

A collaborative of area health care providers and Linn County social service agencies is exploring the feasibility of creating a street medicine team to help deliver health care to the unhoused.

Two months after delaying the timeline of its new $2 billion inpatient tower, citing federal health care-related funding cuts, University of Iowa Health Care next week will ask the Board of Regents to approve $45.5 million in facilities upgrades across its three inpatient hospital campuses.

The funding to opioid addition treatment programs is one of the first publicly announced allocations of the millions of dollars available to Iowa through a national settlement against pharmaceutical companies over opioid addiction

Health care providers have long suggested stressed-out patients spend time outdoors. Now hundreds of providers are going a step further and issuing formal prescriptions.

Over the last decade, advancements in the orthodontics field have offered practitioners more options in dealing with a variety of issues and have led to better patient outcomes and experiences.

One of the most important ways to take care of your teeth is daily brushing. But is a manual or electric toothbrush the way to go?

Just under 7 percent of American men ages 18 to 49 had a vasectomy in 2022-23, according to the Center for Disease Control. That share increases among men with two or more children, to just over 18 percent.

A sandy, gritty feeling in your eyes. Intermittent blurry vision. The sense that there’s something in your eye, but there’s nothing there. These are all common symptoms of dry eye, a condition that affects millions of people every day.

COPD emerged as an umbrella term for several respiratory diseases, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, caused by lung damage. Because its effects are irreversible, early diagnosis and treatment are essential to supporting a patient living with its effects.

Dr. Georgina Aldridge, a neurologist with University of Iowa Health Care who specializes in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, says that while some forgetfulness is a normal part of aging, a decrease in cognitive function to the point that you can’t do your job or your day-to-day hobbies is not.

Surgery to repair a herniated disc was once a procedure that evoked images of long hospital stays and a drawn out recovery — but for many patients, surgery is not necessary or has become minimally invasive.