CEDAR RAPIDS – About a year after receiving state approval for a cardiovascular surgical program, Mercy Medical Center successfully performed …
Michaela Ramm Health Care and Medicine Nov. 13, 2017 5:41 pm2874d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – About a year after receiving state approval for a cardiovascular surgical program, Mercy Medical Center successfully performed …
James Q. Lynch Health Care and Medicine Nov. 10, 2017 12:44 pm2877d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Democratic governor hopeful Fred Hubbell calls Gov. Kim Reynolds’ cut to mental health care ‘a brutal thing” …
Health Care and Medicine Nov. 7, 2017 10:35 pm2880d ago
DES MOINES – Officials announced Tuesday that nearly 215,000 Medicaid enrollees served by AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa under the state’s privately …
Washington Post
Health Care and Medicine Nov. 7, 2017 3:02 pm2880d ago
In the first few days of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, the numbers of participants has surged compared …
News Nov. 7, 2017 10:59 am2880d ago
DES MOINES – While opioid misuse continues to grow in Iowa, a new state report issued Tuesday indicates methamphetamine and …
Health Care and Medicine Nov. 2, 2017 4:37 pm2885d ago
The departure of AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa – one of the three private insurers managing the state’s Medicaid program – means …
News Oct. 31, 2017 6:46 pm2887d ago
AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa – the Medicaid insurer with the largest concentration of the state’s special-needs population – will withdraw from …
Health Care and Medicine Oct. 30, 2017 5:54 pm2888d ago
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is hoping the state’s attorney general can help him get to the bottom of how …
News Oct. 30, 2017 3:29 pm2888d ago
Two area not-for-profits collected more than 140,800 diapers to stock the Eastern Iowa Diaper Bank throughout October – surpassing its …
Health Care and Medicine Oct. 31, 2017 12:19 pm2887d ago
IOWA CITY – An Iowa City-based medical diagnostics company rooted in the University of Iowa research engine, founded by one …
Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post
News Oct. 28, 2017 3:20 pm2890d ago
Cindy Purvance of Park City, Utah, was incensed when she received a letter in the mail, alerting her that her …
News Oct. 28, 2017 3:13 pm2890d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Dr. Jeannette Liu has grit. The new physician at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital spent nearly five months …
Health Care and Medicine Oct. 26, 2017 7:10 pm2892d ago
DES MOINES – Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller told a conference aimed at combating opioid addiction Thursday that the culture …
By Jeanna Smialek, Bloomberg
News Oct. 26, 2017 10:43 am2892d ago
The human and economic toll of the United States’ opioid crisis has only widened since President Donald Trump swept into …
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