As the federal public health emergency ends, the Eastern Iowa Health Center is shifting gears by launching a multilingual ad campaign to reach underserved populations in need of COVID-19 vaccinations and updated booster shots.
As the rates of some sexually-transmitted infections continue to rise, Linn County Public Health is offering $10 gift cards to anyone who gets tested from April 17 to 21.
An online ad by the Iowa Academy of Ophthalmology asks Iowans to opposed House File 347, which would allow optometrists to do more eye injections and surgeries.
Since Jan. 1, at least eight Iowa nursing homes have been cited for violations related to resident abuse.
Iowa is among seven states that have seen sharp declines in the lifesaving surgeries after news rules were implemented in 2020. The new system has nearly doubled the median distance livers are transported, increased transport costs and coincided with the highest number of wasted livers in nearly a decade.
For the third straight year, the North Liberty-based Iowa Donor Network has been designated a “tier 1 organ procurement organization” -- placing it among just 15 of 56 such organizations nationally to achieve the top designation.
Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids recommends that men and women undergo a colonoscopy beginning at the age of 45, a new screening guideline.
“As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, Attorney General Bird is carefully evaluating whether this is an appropriate use of public funds,” Bird Press Secretary Alyssa Brouillet said in a statement. “Until that review is complete, payment of these pending claims will be delayed.”
Iowa is in a shrinking minority of states that do not offer coverage under Medicaid to new mothers for 12 months after they give birth, and lawmakers are not likely to extend the coverage this year.
Major medical groups in the United States -- including the American Medical Association, American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — say gender-affirming care is safe and encourage it as a treatment for gender dysphoria, which is when people feel like they are a different gender than their birth gender.
In March 2022, a Johnson County jury awarded more than $97.4 million to the family of a boy who sustained serious brain damage during his birth at an Iowa City hospital. The award, believed to be the largest medical malpractice judgment in Iowa history, was later reduced to $75.6 million.
Video visits are an increasingly common way for residents of small-town nursing homes to receive mental health care.
Following Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a new law banning gender-affirming care, families with transgender children are searching for answers.
The state agency that oversees Iowa’s nursing homes has again failed to impose the legally mandated fines against a repeat-offender care facility.
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