Health Care and Medicine

A federal judge has granted Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of parts of Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit manager reform law.

Iowans shopping for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans are being urged to act early and seek expert help, with federal subsidies set to expire and insurers filing double-digit rate hikes that could make coverage far less affordable.

Cancer rates among young adults in the Corn Belt, a patchwork of golden fields and straight-line highways stretching across the heart of the Midwest, are rising more rapidly than in the country as a whole, a Washington Post data analysis reveals.

Many veterans live hours from VA facilities, or they need health services that aren’t readily available from the VA. In such cases, the department is supposed to provide a referral and pay for private care. Critics say it often hesitates to do so.

Started over a decade ago, the Hawks to Go tailgate has helped raise money to the children’s hospital before every Hawkeye football game.

A federal probe of Medicare and Medicaid plans run by private insurance companies found that the plan operators often overstated how many mental health providers were available in their networks. In some cases, investigators found providers had never had contracts with plans they were listed on.

Nationwide, states are racing to win their share of a new $50 billion rural health fund. But helping rural hospitals, as originally envisioned, is quickly becoming a quaint idea.

Featuring Eastern Iowa women who have experienced powerful paths of achievement for themselves, their families and their communities.

Splash of Color Breast Cancer Support Group, founded by a mother and her two daughters who are all breast cancer survivors, offers a “splash” of hope for women of color who are or have been afflicted with breast cancer.

Iowa’s largest health insurer says the Insurance Division’s order to implement Senate File 383 would unfairly raise drug costs and contradict a federal court ruling blocking key provisions of the law.

University of Iowa Health Care administrators say they’re “evaluating our badge naming practices based on employee feedback and evolving industry standards” after 500-plus nurses and staff covered their last names with union stickers in protest.

Claire Brown, a Harvard/MIT M.D.-Ph.D. student from Iowa, was diagnosed with cancer just as she began med school. Now, she’s urging lawmakers not to jeopardize future breakthroughs by cutting research funding.