Health Care and Medicine

MARION – If the city agrees, the 87 residents at the Crestview Acres Nursing Home will have fresh eggs and …

DES MOINES – Rachael Selmeski has witnessed the positive impact medical cannabis can have on children with debilitating conditions. She …

CEDAR RAPIDS — At the age of 10, after getting into one too many fights, Hayden Ayers ended up in …

CEDAR RAPIDS — When Karen Christensen’s great-grandchildren come over to play, she worries about lead exposure. Not from water pipes, …

Cynthia MacDonald is health plan president of Amerigroup Iowa, one of the three managed-care organizations awarded a contract to manage …

People in today’s society sometimes have difficulty discussing mental health. Well, it just so happens, art specializes in saying the …

A Kansas man is suing Iowa-based Pizza Ranch after his daughter was hospitalized following an E. coli infection linked to …

DES MOINES – Skeptical state senators were unconvinced Wednesday by assurances from Iowa Medicaid managers that a plan to switch …

IOWA CITY – From hallway chatter and cellphone chimes to beeping equipment and carts rattling by, hospitals can be noisy …

Thirteen people, including one Iowan, have been sickened in a nine-state E. coli outbreak linked to Pizza Ranch, a chain …

In an effort to reduce the number of opioid-related overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued …

A 54-year-old Linn County woman filed a $15 million medical malpractice claim with the Iowa State Appeal Board last week …