Healthcare

The Medicare medication negotiation plan faces legal action from pharmaceutical companies and criticism from Republican lawmakers, including Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.

Acclaimed Indigenous health researcher Dr. Donald Warne gave the MLK Human Rights Week Distinguished Lecture at the University of Iowa Healthcare and Clinics earlier this year. He joins this encore episode of Talk of Iowa to discuss his work.

More people are expected to be diagnosed with dementia in the next decade. But new medication and early detection methods offer hope for those with dementia.

Humans uphold innovators like heroes, but an Iowa psychology professor argues there is little understanding of how they reached their moment of genius.

What’s a fair price to pay for prescription drugs? Medicare will soon face this and other tough questions when it begins historic price negotiations with drugmakers.

Neil Hamilton's latest book The River Knows: How Water and Land Will Shape our Future explores our relationship with water and what is at stake when its quality is not protected.

A report by the March of Dimes found 33 of Iowa's 99 counties have no OB/GYN and no birthing hospitals or birthing centers.

Iowa physician assistants who have practiced medicine for at least two years will no longer need to be supervised by a specific physician under a new law.

Iowa Health and Human Services officials said around 120,000 Iowans have been disenrolled since the start of Medicaid unwinding in April. About three-fourths of those have been for procedural reasons.

A policy change means more organs are going to more highly populated areas, and fewer are staying in Iowa.