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UnitedHealthcare, Hy-Vee to offer mobile health fairs

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Iowa and Hy-Vee Inc. announced they will bring “Healthy You” health fairs to Hy-Vee store locations across Iowa. The mobile health fairs will make stops in Ottumwa, Sioux City, Davenport, Marshalltown, …

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Project Revoice gives voices back to ALS patients — digitally

The ALS Association on Thursday launched Project Revoice, an international initiative to help people with ALS (also known as motor neuron disease) record their voices so they still use their “voice” after they lose their …

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FDA approves first product for Coralville-based IDx

Corridor Business Journal: IDx, a University of Iowa spinout company based in Coralville, has received FDA approval to market IDx-DR, the  first medical device to use artificial intelligence to detect greater than a mild level of …

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Amerigroup Iowa once again is actively accepting Medicaid members’ applications

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Amerigroup Iowa once again is actively accepting Medicaid members as part of the state’s managed-care system. It is taking enrollees it previously had said it didn’t have capacity to include as well as …

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NOTEBOOK:At unveiling of the children’s hospital mural, patients receive 111 surprises

Disney CEO Bob Iger, with patients at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, unveils the new Disney character mural Wednesday at Blank.
Photo by Duane Tinkey

Seventy-five years after the first Disney character murals were …

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Trump rewrites rules for Obamacare marketplaces

The Trump administration on Monday issued new rules for health plans sold through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, in a move that shifts much of the control over insurance standards from the federal government to states …

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Study links insomnia to being a jerk at work

That sandwich you took from the community kitchen fridge that wasn’t yours, the not-so-nice comment you made during a colleague’s presentation or the spat over a parking spot close to the office front door — …

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NewLink Genetics shares plummet 44% after Merck, Incyte trial failure

MarketWatch: Shares of Ames-based NewLink Genetics Corp. plummeted 44 percent by late morning today after Merck and Incyte Corp. said their trial testing a combination including a type of cancer drug called an IDO inhibitor had …

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UI receives $21 million health research grant

The National Institutes of Health has renewed a $21 million grant to the University of Iowa that enables UI to expand its research to collect data from Iowans in their home communities. The Clinical and …

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Medicaid cases top complaints to Iowa Ombudsman office

The Iowa Office of the Ombudsman is crediting a rise in complaints to the office to a 157 percent increase in cases connected to Medicaid managed-care organizations, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reports. The report included examples …