Health Care and Medicine

Earlier this year, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Aetna – Iowa insurers selling individual health plans on and …

IOWA CITY – As a congressman representing more than three-quarters of a million people in 24 Iowa counties, 2nd District …

Grocery store chain Hy-Vee has started offering doses of naloxone at its pharmacies in Iowa and in three other Midwestern …

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to keep an injunction in place lifting a 72-hour mandatory waiting period before a …

IOWA CITY – What makes you anxious? An upcoming math test? A job interview? Asking someone to prom? These feelings …

Planned Parenthood clinics and other Iowa abortion providers are stuck in limbo while they wait for the Iowa Supreme Court …

DES MOINES – Activists opposed to abortion rights cheered Gov. Terry Branstad as he signed new restrictions into law Friday, …

The last insurer offering individual health insurance in most of Iowa said Wednesday it is exploring whether to stop offering …

Mercy Iowa City officials said Friday the hospital could become part of West Des Moines-based Mercy Health Network rather than …

BACKGROUND IOWA CITY — Mercy Iowa City officials announced in December they were considering joining the UnityPoint Health network, which …

Iowa’s biggest and most-profitable hospital is lowering by more than half its operating income projections for 2017 and signaling a …

BACKGROUND CEDAR RAPIDS — Eastern Iowa Health Center, a federally qualified primary health care clinic that serves low-income and Medicaid-eligible …