Linn County Public Health has teamed up with Mercy Medical Center, UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital and the Eastern Iowa Health Center to launch an informational campaign about the risks of measles and the importance of vaccination.
COVID has become similar to influenza — an endemic disease — in terms of the risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death, experts said. The coronavirus, which causes COVID, is now less deadly, though it is more transmissible and is expected to continue experiencing waves, some of which could be severe.
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About a quarter of Iowans would no longer pay co-pays and deductibles for supplemental and diagnostic breast exams under legislation that unanimously passed the Iowa House and advanced Wednesday in the Iowa Senate. But insurers say health care costs would rise for everyone.
Three years after getting the state OK to build an ambulatory surgery center near the booming North Liberty-Tiffin border, Steindler Orthopedic Clinic is two weeks from opening a 100,000-square-foot facility on March 24.
A Cedar Rapids assisted living center has been fined $7,500 for a resident death that occurred six months ago.
Knowledge is power for family members, for communities, for health care providers, and for the men and women — sons and daughters, moms and dads, brothers and sisters — battling drug addiction and the mental health challenges involved.
Federal legal protections added in the 1980s to shield vaccine manufacturers from most lawsuits would be waived any time a vaccine is administered in Iowa under legislation that was advanced Wednesday by Republican state lawmakers.
A U.S. District Court judge on Monday dismissed MercyOne’s appeal of a liquidation plan for the bankrupt Mercy Iowa City hospital it managed for years -- a plan MercyOne opposed, in part, because it left the Des Moines-based health care system exposed to potential lawsuits.
Congressional leaders are moving to overturn the federal government’s new nursing home staffing mandates as part of a larger effort to cut Medicaid and other forms of government spending.
“I thank my mother for finding the physician,” he said. “Of course, I was involved with that whole process of finding a surgeon, going and meeting them, and asking them about the operation and the alternatives and getting second opinions. And the decision was left up to me, ultimately, of whether or not to get surgery.”
It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.
The legislation would work to address the shortage of physicians -- especially in rural areas of the state -- by consolidating and boosting funding in doctors’ loan repayment programs and increasing the number of medical residencies in Iowa
With Iowa maintaining the second-highest rate and fastest-growing rate of new cancers nationally, advancements in treatment has its count of cancer survivors up in the state to 171,535 in 2025 — up from 168,610 in 2024.
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