Nearly three years after longtime University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Director George Weiner announced plans to step down, the health care enterprise has announced his permanent replacement in Mark Burkard.
A treatment that could one day help prevent many of the complications of diabetes was inspired by a tool used in your local coffeehouse.
The new machines stocked with free naloxone, the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose, have been placed at seven locations around Linn County. With an emphasis on harm reduction, specialists say they are a marker of a new mindeset for treatment programs, recovery programs and public health spaces.
In May, the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing visited the Crestview Specialty Care facility in West Branch in response to nine separate complaints concerning resident care. Four of the complaints were substantiated.
The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to develop a pandemic vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people as cases in dairy cows continue to mount across the country, federal officials announced Tuesday.
Studies show that suicide is unusually common among farmers. The tragic trend has caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which sponsors training sessions to help health care professionals learn how to talk to farmers about the pressures they face in wringing a living out of the land.
Under four months after launching a search for a new head of its nationally-ranked Stead Family Children’s Hospital — a position that has seen significant turnover for the past seven years — University of Iowa Health Care this week announced Jim Leste, vice president of operations for Children’s Minnesota, has accepted an offer.
Iowa has an estimated $25M at stake in the deal with Purdue Pharma
It reverses the court's earlier order that had allowed an Idaho abortion ban to go into effect, even in medical emergencies.
Iowa’s Supreme Court is set to issue its decision Friday on whether or not to allow a strict abortion restriction to take effect, potentially delivering a dramatic shake-up to Iowa’s abortion laws.
MercyOne — former managing partner of the bankrupt Mercy Iowa City — plans to appeal a judge’s decision earlier this month to confirm a Chapter 11 liquidation plan for the insolvent community hospital that leaves MercyOne vulnerable to lawsuits.
A number of experts think it’s unlikely this virus will become a deadly global contagion, based on evidence so far. But that's not a sure bet.
Iowa is among the states suing companies collecting millions by injecting people with stem cells the FDA says have little to no benefits.
Hotter weather and a wet spring — ideal weather for ticks to reproduce — are among the reasons this tick season is expected to be worse.
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