Health Care and Medicine

Medical practitioners, health care institutions and patients would be given broader allowance for consciously objecting to receiving or administering certain forms of medical care under proposed legislation in the Iowa legislature.

A day after the University of Iowa paused or slowed research-related grant applications, hiring, and general spending in response to funding cuts announced by the National Institutes of Health — the campus’ largest federal research funder — UI officials on Tuesday retracted that guidance due to a temporary restraining order on the NIH cuts.

Panel discussion will be Feb. 25 in Cedar Rapids

A West Branch nursing home is being sued over an incident in which an intruder was able to enter the home, undress and climb into bed with a resident.

Older adults on their own find ways to manage their final years

In this week’s installment of Curious Iowa, The Gazette answers a question about the work of county public health departments, which touch the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat.

Erin Schmidt-Rundel is the sixth of seven kids in her family to earn the highest achievement possible in their scouting programs, and she started by researching a hereditary dental issue that affects about half her siblings.

Bills proposed in the Iowa Legislature would increase the number of dispensaries in the state and add to the legal forms of medical cannabis

Cedar Rapids home is fined $1,000 for failing to investigate thefts

Ribbon-cutting marks end of phase 2 in $25M project

Hiawatha facility to open this spring

A group of Republican attorneys general have lost their bid for a temporary injunction that would have blocked the federal government from imposing new staffing level requirements on nursing homes. But some observers say the case isn’t likely to have much effect on the long-term fate of the staffing mandates since the Trump administration is expected to do away with the new rule once the president-elect takes office.