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Delta Dental donates to give children screenings

Delta Dental of Iowa has donated more than $5,000 to help children get free dental screenings before the school year.

The donation is part of Delta’s Giving Back and Investing in Iowa program. All children …

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Mid-Iowa announces grants for health and human services

Mid-Iowa Health Foundation has awarded eight organizations a total of $167,000 in grants through its Children’s Health Development initiative.

The foundation awarded grants to the following organizations: Children and Family Urban Ministries, Dallas County Public …

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Branstad, Reynolds will pay portion of their health insurance

Gov. Terry Branstad said today that he and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds have volunteered to pay 20 percent of their state-provided health-care costs, effective Aug. 1. Branstad signed Executive Order 78 today to allow state …

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Health care stories collide

By Kent Darr  

Shortly after 10 a.m. this morning, David Vellinga had visions of another long, arduous debate over health care. He was watching CNN, and the network was reporting that the Patient Protection …

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NewLink to expand facility

NewLink Genetics Corp. in Ames is expanding its facility and will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:30 a.m. on July 11 at its location in the Iowa State University Research Park.

Gov. Terry Branstad will …

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Poll Results: Do you Agree or Disagree with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law

We asked our readers… (via an online poll)

Do you Agree or Disagree with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law:

34.5% – Strongly Agreed
6.2%   – Mostly Agreed
2.1%   – …

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Principal donates to 82 charities

The Principal Financial Group Foundation has awarded $634,500 to 82 local health and human service programs in Iowa.

Mary O’Keefe, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, said in a release it is important for …

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State receives $61.8 million Medicaid grant

Iowa Medicaid will use a major grant to help older and disabled Iowans stay in their own homes and avoid unnecessary nursing home placements.

Iowa is one of six states to receive funding through a …

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NewLink Genetics reaches Phase 3 milestone

NewLink Genetics Corp. announced that it recently passed the midpoint in patient enrollment for a Phase 3 trial of a pancreatic cancer vaccine it has developed.

The Ames-based pharmaceutical company, which went public with an …

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LeadingAge to host annual spring conference

LeadingAge Iowa will host its annual spring conference on Wednesday and Thursday at the The Meadows Events & Conference Center in Altoona.

The conference for nonprofit senior service providers will run from 8 a.m. to …

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