Infections — both viral and bacterial — are common, especially in your eyes. Iowa Eye Center’s Dr. Brian Privett has a few tips to spot, treat and keep eye infections at bay.
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Infections — both viral and bacterial — are common, especially in your eyes. Iowa Eye Center’s Dr. Brian Privett has a few tips to spot, treat and keep eye infections at bay.
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University of Iowa Health Care’s SAINT® therapy only takes 10 minutes, and within a month, more than 80 percent had remission of symptoms.
The 99-year-old Cedar Rapids retiree has been donating blood for 25 years. According to ImpactLife, Nadene Roberts is the nonprofit community blood center’s oldest donor and volunteer blood drive coordinator.
University of Iowa Health Care is looking to expand and further cement its “commitment to serving Cedar Rapids” by capitalizing on the retirement of a private practitioner and buying his 37,850-square-foot medical office building.
Although most studies measuring premature-baby outcomes start at 22 and 23 weeks — reporting U.S. survival rates between 10 and 20 percent at that gestation — University of Iowa Health Care is among the few hospital systems that take on babies at 21 weeks.
State officials are warning the public that they may have been exposed to measles at four locations in northwest Iowa last week.
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In separate case, C.R. assisted living center fined after resident death.
Wednesday's national case count stood at 1,309 — 21 new cases in a week, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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An Eastern Iowa resident who tested positive for measles went to several stores, pharmacies, a day care and a golf course last week when they were contagious. Public health officials are asking the public to fill out a form if they may have been exposed.
State regulators say they have never inspected and are not investigating a Cedar Rapids-based home health agency alleged to have falsified records, billed for services never delivered and used an unlicensed nurse.
An eastern Iowa nurse previously sanctioned for possessing alcohol while on duty in a hospital is facing new sanctions from the Iowa Board of Nursing.
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