“Just bring a salad to pass!” This is the unofficial motto of many summer celebration invites and the reason we see the same standard sides at every barbecue. This year, let your Hy-Vee dietitians help you re-think the classic pasta salad with tips for building a crowd-pleasing platter that’s packed with nutrients to support your health and wellness goals all summer long.
When we pause to pray and listen, we reconnect with our inner wisdom: improving not just our spiritual well-being, but our emotional and physical health, too.
Arthritis in the shoulder can cause debilitating pain and limit your quality of life and ability to do everyday tasks. Luckily, improvements and innovations in total shoulder replacement surgery have made the procedure a reliable and effective way to relieve pain and improve function in patients.
If you are a parent who is constantly at the doctor’s office with your child with yet another sore throat, it may be time to talk to a doctor about long-term solutions.
Dr. Vanessa Leonhard and Dr. David Jerkins of PCI are two of the only doctors in the state of Iowa who perform a supermicrosurgery called Lymphovascular anastomosis, or LVA. This surgery reduces breast cancer patients’ chances of getting lymphedema, a chronic, debilitating condition, to around five percent.
Cancer treatment often evokes images of hair loss and fatigue, but for patients receiving chemotherapy and radiation, it can also take a toll on their oral health.
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.
Most people have goals — lifelong dreams or daily tasks — they wish to achieve. However, most people also face obstacles that prevent or delay those things from happening, such as time and capacity restraints, lack of motivation or fear of failure.
The best defense against measles is the vaccine, according to Iowa public health professionals. Here’s what to know about the vaccine, its effectiveness and options for infants.
In some ways, the boxing, dancing and singing classes from the Cedar Rapids Metro Parkinson’s Association have become a better medicine than any prescription drug on the market.
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