Health Care and Medicine

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.

Since 2022, UI Health Care has scrapped those inpatient-tower-expansion plans amid significant change – including across its leadership team and its facilities footprint.

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

Breast cancer survivor Erica Bergfeld-Reed wants you to know you don’t have to fight your toughest battles alone.

More than 15 years after U.S. News & World Report started ranking the nation’s children’s hospitals by the specialty services they offer, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital this year achieved a top-50 ranking in nine of 11 categories.