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Health and Wellness

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Mercy receives $250,000 grant from Variety

Mercy Foundation has received a $250,000 grant from Variety — the Children’s Charity to enhance care and services for children at Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines. Mercy Children’s Hospital & Clinics will use the grant to …

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Robotic baby joins Cedar Rapids hospital as high-tech practice tool

The newborn that’s training medical staff at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids will cry and squirm like any other. It will also change color to indicate blood and air flow — one of …

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Broadlawns receives Job Honor Award for TEACH program

Broadlawns Medical Center was one of four recipients of the Iowa Job Honor Award, presented by the Iowa Society of Human Resource Management at its fifth annual event in Coralville. The awards celebrate Iowans who …

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State seeks input on children’s mental health system

Iowans are invited to provide input on children’s mental health needs at regional listening posts scheduled statewide beginning Oct. 2. The listening posts will be hosted by Iowa’s area education agencies on behalf of the …

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IDx secures $33 million in venture capital for eye diagnostic system

Coralville-based IDx, which has developed an autonomous diagnostic system for detecting diabetic retinopathy, announced it has secured a $33 million venture capital infusion to accelerate market adoption and further develop diagnostic systems for its artificial …

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Iowa Medicaid’s per-member cost increases nearly triple since privatization

Des Moines Register: The average cost of insuring an Iowan on Medicaid has climbed nearly three times as fast since the state hired private companies to manage the program, when compared to the previous six years, …

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A Closer Look: David Stark

David Stark became president and CEO of UnityPoint Health-Des Moines on July 1, succeeding Eric Crowell, who retired after 17 years leading the Des Moines hospital system. Stark, who joined UnityPoint Health-Des Moines as an …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The broad problem with narrow gene studies

Around 16 percent of all human genes were identified by 1991. Yet 24 years later, those genes were still the subjects of about half of all genetic research published in 2015, the New York Times reports. …

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Moreland opens Nextaff franchise for health care staffing

Des Moines health care entrepreneur Tom Moreland is adding health care staffing to his repertoire. Moreland has opened the first Iowa franchise for Nextaff, a staffing company with franchises in nine states. Moreland, who was …

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Plans to produce first medical cannabis oil products in Iowa on schedule

MedPharm Iowa says the company’s facility in Des Moines will be ready to deliver medical cannabis oil, an extraction of marijuana, in December, reports Radio Iowa. Lucas Nelson, spokesperson for MedPharm Iowa, said work on the …

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