Health and Wellness

No matter how much you earn, people who earn more than you are likelier to be healthier and live longer, Bloomberg reported.

At least that is the takeaway from a new report by researchers at the Urban …

Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines announced that it is one of 35 hospitals in the country selected to participate in the American College of Cardiology Patient Navigator Program. The program is the first of …

Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying how cells divide in worms in hopes they can better understand the mechanism in people. That in turn could help in cancer treatment. The mechanism, unknown until now, …

The Wellmark Foundation announced that it is accepting letters of interest for its Matching Assets to Community Health (MATCH) grant program. The program provides matching grants to communities to support projects that promote better health …

The overwhelming majority of state health insurance marketplace plans in the United States are not providing the coverage they should be for smoking cessation, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.  Millions …

Iowa State University scientists found striking patterns in the building blocks of DNA in a wide variety of species, according to their recently published paper.The work could offer new insight into how genes mutate over time …

Iowa State University scientists found striking patterns in the building blocks of DNA in a wide variety of species, according to their recently published paper.The work could offer new insight into how genes mutate over time …