Two hundred ninety-six percent. That’s how much the gonorrhea rate in Des Moines County in southeast Iowa increased between 2016 …
Articles Tagged: IowaIdeas: Healthcare
By Anne Discher
Health Care and Medicine Aug. 18, 2021 9:15 am1479d ago
Editor’s note: Iowans’ Ideas is a guest column featuring the views of different Iowans each edition of Iowa Ideas magazine. …
By Melissa Walker
Guest Columnists Aug. 18, 2021 9:15 am1479d ago
Editor’s note: Iowans’ Ideas is a guest column featuring the views of different Iowans each edition of Iowa Ideas magazine. …
Aug. 18, 2021 9:16 am1479d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Stigma surrounds mental health because nobody is taught how to handle sadness and pain and the resources …
Aug. 18, 2021 9:17 am1479d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Iowa’s Medicaid system made a fairly smooth transition to a new managed care organization in part because …
Business News Aug. 18, 2021 9:17 am1479d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — After Molly Monk, 25-year-old NewBoCo assistant director of development, began fainting up to 10 times a day, …
News Aug. 18, 2021 9:17 am1479d ago
Steven Miller was 19 when he ‘started getting really sick.” But for years before that, he’d had a sense that …
Health Care and Medicine Aug. 18, 2021 9:18 am1479d ago
In many ways, a pharmacist serves as a front-line health care provider. With the number of prescription drugs that Americans …
Health Care and Medicine Aug. 17, 2021 2:04 pm1480d ago
On one of the last afternoons of the school year, five women sat around a table in an Amana Elementary …
By Dave Heaton
Iowa Ideas Aug. 18, 2021 9:18 am1479d ago
The condition of rural health in Iowa is nearing a point of crisis. Changes in payment systems and quality measures, …
Health Care and Medicine Jul. 14, 2022 1:02 pm1149d ago
The MMR vaccine protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Some variations of the vaccine also protect against varicella, or chickenpox. …
Iowa Ideas Aug. 17, 2021 12:40 pm1480d ago
Kirsta’s son climbed down from peeking over the top of the fridge, where his cat was hiding, and accepted a …
Iowa Ideas Aug. 18, 2021 9:19 am1479d ago
In a University of Iowa clinic in Coralville this past summer, health care providers became the first in the nation …
Iowa Ideas Aug. 18, 2021 9:20 am1479d ago
Cailee and Tanner Wenger live in Water’s Edge, a picturesque development north of Washington, Iowa, that has residents trading in …
Health Care and Medicine Aug. 18, 2021 9:20 am1479d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — The head of Iowa’s Department of Human Services said Thursday there has been progress in delivering services …