Articles Tagged: IowaIdeas: Healthcare

Editor’s note: Iowans’ Ideas is a guest column featuring the views of different Iowans each edition of Iowa Ideas magazine. …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Stigma surrounds mental health because nobody is taught how to handle sadness and pain and the resources …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Iowa’s Medicaid system made a fairly smooth transition to a new managed care organization in part because …

CEDAR RAPIDS — After Molly Monk, 25-year-old NewBoCo assistant director of development, began fainting up to 10 times a day, …

Steven Miller was 19 when he ‘started getting really sick.” But for years before that, he’d had a sense that …

In many ways, a pharmacist serves as a front-line health care provider. With the number of prescription drugs that Americans …

On one of the last afternoons of the school year, five women sat around a table in an Amana Elementary …

The condition of rural health in Iowa is nearing a point of crisis. Changes in payment systems and quality measures, …

The MMR vaccine protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Some variations of the vaccine also protect against varicella, or chickenpox. …

Kirsta’s son climbed down from peeking over the top of the fridge, where his cat was hiding, and accepted a …

In a University of Iowa clinic in Coralville this past summer, health care providers became the first in the nation …

Cailee and Tanner Wenger live in Water’s Edge, a picturesque development north of Washington, Iowa, that has residents trading in …

CEDAR RAPIDS — The head of Iowa’s Department of Human Services said Thursday there has been progress in delivering services …

People are a lot like cars. Some are brand-new. Some have been around awhile. Some are showing their age. Both …

D.J. Spilker and Jeri Thomas couldn’t be more different. Sixty-nine-year-old Spilker is a type A personality, an active person who …