Healthcare

2020 was a record year for liquor sales across the state, even with people spending less time at bars and restaurants.

Weeks after Iowa received its first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, the state is still in the process of vaccinating health care workers and nursing homes, and some leaders say they feel vaccination efforts are moving slower than expected.

2020 was an unbelievably exhausting year for health care workers.

This episode of River to River takes a look back at local news in 2020.

River to River host Ben Kieffer checks in with IPR's Natalie Krebs following Gov. Reynolds' 11:00 am press conference on Tuesday, December 22.

The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded the state of Iowa likely violated the constitutional rights of disabled residents at the state-run Glenwood Resource Center by subjecting them to harmful human experimentation and inadequate medical care.

Talk of Iowa's Charity Nebbe learns what it's like to be a nurse in an intensive care unit at this moment.

Workers in meatpacking facilities will have a new option for healthcare if a pilot program is successful.

Our country has rolled out its first COVID-19 vaccines. Here in Iowa, as in other states, frontline health care workers were the first to receive the first doses of the two-dose Pfizer vaccine. The speed at which the vaccine development occurred is unprecedented in modern medical history.