Health Care and Medicine

Medica – the only insurer selling statewide plans on the state’s individual market – filed rates Wednesday with the Iowa …

A growing number of Americans are needing intensive care for opioid overdoses and dying after receiving treatment for serious complications, …

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he considers the opioid crisis to be ‘a national emergency,” starting a process aimed …

While University of Iowa Health Care again earned top-tier status, according to 2017-18 U.S. News & World Report rankings, it …

Life expectancy in Appalachia, a region that stretches from Mississippi to New York, lags behind the rest of the U.S. …

DES MOINES – Officials with the state Department of Human Services said Friday they now have used Iowa’s safe haven …

With health care talks in Washington, D.C., now stalled and the start of open enrollment only three months away, many …

An inspector general’s investigation, requested by several members of Congress in the wake of a veteran’s suicide shortly after he …

IOWA CITY – U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack is spending August meeting with residents in his 24-county southeast Iowa congressional district, …

WASHINGTON – Senate Republican leaders continued working Thursday to round up votes for a modest overhaul of the Affordable Care …

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans forged ahead with proposals aimed at revamping the Affordable Care Act Wednesday, hoping to produce some …

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump made a last-ditch plea to U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday to ‘do the right thing” …