Health Care and Medicine

DES MOINES – State officials say they’re on track to open Iowa’s health care exchange in three months and start …

DES MOINES – The every-day effects of state action in 2008 to curtail smoking in public places hit home for …

The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital ranked in seven specialty categories in the latest U.S. News & World Report “Best …

In sickness and in health is something most newlyweds hear. Michelle Cox, who on a drizzly afternoon was sitting on …

DES MOINES – Iowa Democrats kept their promise to help middle-class Iowans during the just-completed 2013 session, party leaders said …

WASHINGTON _ Nearly six months after the mass murders in Newtown, Conn., one more casualty is looming in Congress. Ironically, …

Gov. Terry Branstad today is hailing the members of split-control Legislature for their landmark session achievements. The five-term GOP governor …

DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad and legislative negotiators have hammered out a bipartisan agreement to use federal money to …

Key legislators and Gov. Terry Branstad expressed optimism Monday that progress was being made to forge a “hybrid” health care …

DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad reiterated his contention Monday that residents at the Iowa Veterans Home are getting top-quality …

Only half of people in the United States who have ever been infected with hepatitis C get proper testing for …

Majority Democrats in the Iowa Senate refused Wednesday to approve a House-passed version of Gov. Terry Branstad’s Healthy Iowa plan …