The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a $97.4 million verdict against an OBGYN clinic in Coralville — undoing what was believed to be the largest medical malpractice judgment for a birth trauma in state history — and ordered a new trial.
Surgeons are utilizing cutting edge technology, pain management methods and postoperative recovery plans to get patients back on their feet quicker with outpatient surgery.
Volpara Risk Pathways is described as a state-of-the-art assessment tool that identifies women who may be at elevated risk for breast cancer, and Mercy Cedar Rapids is the first hospital in the area to offer it.
For people with diabetes, blindness can be a real threat. Because serious eye disease can be present with few symptoms or even none at all, people with diabetes should have a thorough eye exam at least once a year.
At University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, specialists have been performing cochlear implant surgeries for more than 40 years.
Coralville company’s pioneering treatment now in clinical trials
A quarterly health publication.
Iowa is facing a “maternal care crisis” – as rural obstetric units disappear – funneling more pregnant mothers and babies to the University of Iowa, stressing and stretching its resources and compelling it to expand.
Open house set for Nov. 16 at freestanding facility
Planned Parenthood officials said many Iowans — who have the means — are seeking services in neighboring states with less restrictive abortion laws.
A middle-aged Iowa resident who was being treated at the University of Iowa has died from Lassa fever, a viral illness that is spread rats found in West Africa, according to a Monday news release from Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
As Democrats seek to make the right to contraception an election issue amid a growing partisan clash over reproductive rights, Iowa Republicans U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst are focusing attention on their efforts to increase birth control options for women in rural Iowa.
The Iowa Board of Psychology agreed last month to a gradual lift of restrictions placed on the license of Angela Perkins of College Park Neuropsychology in Cedar Rapids.
Infections were reported between Sept. 27 and Oct. 11, in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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