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An Eastern Iowa hospital has been cited by the state for hiring, without a full background check, a nurse who was later fired for the suspected theft of opioid narcotics.
Insulin has become the poster-child drug when it comes to the debate over controlling skyrocketing drug prices and life-or-death stakes.
The first vaccination clinics for monkeypox will be held at LGBTQ bars in Linn and Johnson counties.
The Iowa Cannabis Company expects to spend $10 million to adapt a 120,000-square-foot warehouse at 2727 S. Scott Blvd. to grow marijuana plants and produce products for Iowa’s medical marijuana program.
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Iowa increased for the second week in a row, while the number of new virus cases continued to decrease.
Lyme is a growing problem, with cases rising and warming weather helping ticks expand their habitat. In Iowa, the number of confirmed and suspected cases has been ticking upward.
Eight area nonprofits received a total of $150,000 from Mercy’s new Health Equity Fund
The 125-bed Touchstone Healthcare Community in Sioux City was added July 27 to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ list of care facilities eligible for designation as a Special-Focus Facility List.
As Iowa grapples with a dramatic increase in overdose deaths involving fentanyl, some experts and activists say the best-proven solutions are currently criminalized in the state.
Among four proposals Mercy Iowa City entertained last year in its search for a new partner was one from University of Iowa Health Care offering more than $605 million to take ownership of the community hospital and make it the “centerpiece” of a new UIHC “community division.”
There have been 5,768 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the past seven days, just down from 5,924 the week before, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.
The system for getting donated kidneys, livers and hearts to desperately ill patients relies on outdated technology that has crashed for hours at a time and has never been audited by federal officials for security weaknesses.
A University of Iowa nurse midwife program served more than 500 patients in Muscatine and Washington.
