Health Care and Medicine

Fourteen states currently have bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with some exceptions; three ban it after about six weeks’ gestational age, before many women know they are pregnant, with a fourth such restriction, in Iowa, expected to take effect Monday.

Challenges persist for the agencies that answer the phone calls and text messages that come in through the 988 number, including high turnover among crisis counselors.

Open house is Saturday, with emergency room opening Aug. 6

The new abortion restrictions include exceptions for rape, incest and the mother’s health, but doctors say the law’s language is inadequate and forces them to make legal instead of medical determinations

Eastern Iowa schools watch for underage use, police watch for compliance

For the first time in several years, the University of Iowa’s Health Care operation has made gains in the oft-touted U.S. News & World Report “best hospital” rankings, with the 2024-25 edition released this week.

A social worker for Heritage Specialty Care was justified in quitting after the facility failed to inform her of residents who had serious, contagious diseases, according to a judge’s ruling.

The President of the American Medical Association says doctors are being driven out of the field by low reimbursement rates, increased administrative burden, and high student debt.

After taking over Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital and its handful of clinics in January with a $28 million bid in a contentious bankruptcy auction, the University of Iowa has sold the Mercy clinic in Kalona that it obtained through the process to Washington County Hospital and Clinics for $425,000.

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.