THC drinks have been popping up at more and more restaurants and stores. Here’s how they became legal and how they’re different from recreational products sold across Iowa’s borders.
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THC drinks have been popping up at more and more restaurants and stores. Here’s how they became legal and how they’re different from recreational products sold across Iowa’s borders.
Organ and tissue donations have been increasing across Iowa and nationwide. In 2023, 123 people in Iowa donated 350 organs, and 1,027 people donated tissue, according to a news release from the Iowa Donor Network. Each tissue donation benefits between 50 and 300 people.
In her Condition of the State address in January, Reynolds said there is “little coordination” between the differing districts now, causing problems for Iowans seeking treatment for both. “Over 25 percent of adults with serious mental health challenges also suffer from substance use,” she told lawmakers.
Bills include new insurance requirements, millions in appropriations and radon detection requirements in new homes
The Iowa Board of Nursing has revoked the license of a Cedar Rapids hospital nurse accused of repeatedly showing up for work while intoxicated.
Although the skywalk spanning Market Street connecting portions of the historic Mercy Hospital campus on Wednesday morning still boasted that 150-year-old name and its teal and white colors, a sign along the street below announced Mercy’s new owner and new name: University of Iowa Health Care "Downtown Campus.“
“It’s vital that we ensure that every dime of these settlement funds goes to help curb this deadly epidemic,” the Marion representative says.
The bill is intended to drive down costs for patients by encouraging them to shop for the best price among multiple providers.
Iowa's maternal death rate and infant mortality rate have climbed as birthing units have closed in recent years
Iowa Republican lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would allow health care providers, facilities and insurance companies to refuse medical care based on moral objections.
A week before Mercy Iowa City’s 150-year history comes to an end – with the bankrupt hospital transitioning to University of Iowa ownership Jan. 31 – the Board of Regents will meet Wednesday to consider new bylaws for the former Mercy campus, renamed UI Health Care Medical Center Downtown.
The bill comes as Iowa nursing homes face heightened scrutiny after multiple reports in the last year of deaths, abuse and neglect at long-term care facilities.
Kathi Anderson donated a kidney for Christopher Turnis, but not to him. The National Kidney Registry allows people to donate a kidney that isn’t a match to help a loved one, friend or stranger receive another kidney that is a match.
Keokuk’s shuttered hospital was among the fewer than two dozen rural hospitals that were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals in the program’s first year. Now, advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are necessary to lure more takers and keep health care in rural communities.
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