Elizabeth Wehrle of Montezuma went into the hospital in February and this week she gets to go home. In March, she received a first-of-its-kind lifesaving surgery, a quadruple organ transplant. On this episode, we talk with Wehrle and Dr. Ankit Bharat of Northwestern Medicine, the lead surgeon for this groundbreaking procedure. We hear about the health issues that led to these transplants, what this surgical advancement means and what goes into the decision to perform a surgery that hasn’t been done before. Then, we talk with Suzanna de Baca, Iowa author of 'You Were Never Lost: Poems From The Tallgrass Prairie.' De Baca didn’t expect to write about grief, but when back at the place where she spent her childhood with a friend who died, poetry and nature helped her cope.
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The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company was owned by two Euro-American men in the late 1800s who used the tribe's identity to sell so-called "Indian remedies." -
Acclaimed Indigenous health researcher Dr. Donald Warne will give the MLK Human Rights Week Distinguished Lecture at the University of Iowa Healthcare and Clinics. -
Charity Nebbe and her guests talk about how the power of music, making music, listening to music and moving to music can be harnessed to promote healing, wellness and mental health.
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Meatpacking families in the state were hit hard by the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean they were all torn apart. -
Guillermo Romano Ibarra meets with Ben Kieffer at Lake McBride State Park to recount his journey of recovery and survival after he was nearly killed by a motorist while riding his bicycle in rural Johnson county.
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COVID-19 has killed more than 3,300 Iowans across all 99 counties. And more than once, the respiratory disease has taken married couples who have died within just hours of each other. The family of Jerry and Rosie Morrow spoke with IPR about their loss.
