Health and Wellness

The Science Center of Iowa and Blank IMAX Dome Theater will partner with Dahl’s Foods to renovate a portion of the “Small Discoveries” marketplace exhibit at the Science Center. New exhibits and content will provide …

Mid-Iowa Health Foundation announced that it has launched a Youth Health Philanthropy Initiative to reach out to community organizations to improve the health and well-being of children and youths in Greater Des Moines. The foundation …

Broadlawns Medical Center patients now have access to key medical information and services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Des Moines hospital announced. Using its new online Patient Portal, patients can review laboratory results, …

Gov. Terry Branstad is set to announce today the formation of an organization designed to educate citizens about the importance of clinical research.

The Iowa Coalition of Clinical Researchers is made up of a number …

Flu activity is increasing in Iowa. The good news is that the prevalent strain should be thwarted if you got a flu shot.
Surveillance data in Iowa shows that while still relatively low, influenza activity …

U.S. health care spending grew more slowly than the economy as a whole in 2012, according to a new analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Overall health care spending increased at a …

The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday adopted a strict definition of affordable health insurance, one which family advocacy groups say will deny federal financial assistance to millions of Americans with modest incomes who cannot afford family …

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Healthways Inc. today named six more communities as Blue Zones Project demonstration sites in Iowa.

The communities are Cedar Rapids, Muscatine, Iowa City, Oskaloosa, Marion and Sioux City. …

Federal regulators have delayed indefinitely a health-care overhaul requirement that employers notify employees in writing by March 1 about the availability of public health insurance exchanges, Business Insurance reported. Regulators cited several reasons for delaying …