The Iowa House passed a bill requiring parental consent for minors to receive the HPV vaccine, which protects against an STI that causes cancer.
While sitting on a House subcommittee that oversees drug pricing, Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks was renting her DC apartment from lobbyists paid millions to fight prescription drug cost...
Slotkin came to Iowa with a warning: the healthcare crisis hitting rural communities isn't coming—it's already here. US Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan made a stop in Iowa on Tuesday to campaign...
Health care workers aren't largely unionized across the country. But that's now changing. In Iowa, a second hospital system's workers have unionized. Here's how they did it.
Democratic congressional candidate Sarah Trone Garriott held a roundtable in Ottumwa where local health care professionals and patients discussed the closure of MercyOne's Ottumwa clinic and how...
The Affordable Care Act turns 16 this month. Before it passed, insurers could deny you coverage for a pre-existing condition, cut you off when your bills got too high, and charge you full price...
Legislators have been happy to prosecute abortion providers in the past. But their new move is to target Iowans who get abortions themselves, classifying the procedure as a homicide. Iowa...
US Rep. Zach Nunn’s position on expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits has been all over the place in recent weeks. Nunn, the Republican congressman from Iowa's Third District, signed on to...
After a delayed vote because of the government shutdown, hundreds of nurses at four UnityPoint Health hospitals in the Des Moines area are voting this weekend on whether to unionize with...
Nationwide, contract disputes are common, with more than 650 hospitals having public spats with an insurer since 2021. They could become even more common as hospitals brace for about $1 trillion in cuts to federal health care spending prescribed by President Donald Trump’s signature legislation signed into law in July.
