In an effort to prevent blight in neighborhoods, a policy advanced this week by the Marion City Council would add another tool for city staff to improve the conditions of neglected vacant buildings.
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In an effort to prevent blight in neighborhoods, a policy advanced this week by the Marion City Council would add another tool for city staff to improve the conditions of neglected vacant buildings.
But many families continue the tradition, saying they ‘love the smell’
Although the common and highly-contagious RSV – short for “respiratory syncytial virus” – runs a mild, cold-like course for most people, it can hit infants and patients over 60 hard, even requiring hospitalization. For the first time, a vaccine is how available for those high-risk groups – thanks, in part, to University of Iowa Health Care trial work.
Positive identification of the remains still has not been made, but investigators believe they are those of Brian Burns, who was last seen 10 years ago, in December 2013.
A newly filed lawsuit claims an insurance company engineered a record-setting medical malpractice judgment in Iowa to spur state legislators into passing tort-reform legislation.
There’s been a national shortage of ADHD medications for more than a year. What started with manufacturing delays for a producer of
Clark Weaver and Sondra Nelson had decades-long teacher careers in the district before serving two terms each on the Linn-Mar school board.
Among the five Cedar Rapids projects that were recently awarded redevelopment tax credits from the Iowa Economic Development Authority, local developer Steve Emerson’s proposed transformation of the old Guaranty Bank block received a major boost.
A federal report suggests Iowa has one of the nation’s worst ratios of nursing home inspectors to care facilities, and that the state’s use of private contractors to inspect homes is extraordinarily costly to taxpayers.
A photo essay that delves into the world of caring for a child with multiple medical conditions.
AJ Gale of Keystone was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Down syndrome and a host of other health conditions. Now, at 8 years old, he is healthy and thriving, but his day-to-day life — and the day-to-day life of his family — still looks quite different from that of other kids his age
Speaker applications now open for two-day conference in June
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