Health Care and Medicine

The new hours allow for individuals to seek walk-in services after 5 p.m.

Starting Friday, Iowans can obtain at-home COVID-19 testing kits at no cost. Participants will collect their own saliva and mail samples directly to the State Hygienic Lab for results.

The American Heart Association’s annual Heart Walk is coming back to Cedar Rapids this summer after a year of challenges and delays due to the coronavirus pandemic and the derecho.

Six-million-dollar grant will enable the launch of a new UI Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, or Hawk-IDDRC.

Delta, the highly transmissible variant of the novel coronavirus, has become the dominant strain both in Iowa and across the nation. Public health experts say Iowans should assume the variant is circulating throughout their community.

Staff at MercyOne facilities across Iowa are required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by this fall, diverging from other local hospitals when it comes to mandating shots for employees.

Iowa expects to receive an estimated $25 million for abatement of the opioid epidemic if the deal is approved.

State moving to weekly reports

The total number of people in Iowa who have tested positive for the virus is 374,253, according to state data.

All the talk of sending more people into the weightless expanse above Earth has NASA thinking more intentionally about the risk of cancer-causing radiation exposure to astronauts; what constitutes an acceptable level; how to communicate risks; and when and how to take them.

Dozens of patients arrived at local emergency rooms this weekend with fireworks-related injuries, including burns and traumatic hand injuries, local hospitals report.

Linn and Johnson counties did not add COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period ending Monday at 11 a.m.