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Experts say respiratory virus season has started earlier than usual and has been particularly severe for children.
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A new federal designation would allow struggling hospitals to end inpatient services, but some have concerns about how that could affect rural health care.
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Strokes can happen to anyone, and catching a stroke early can make all the difference in treatment and long-term recovery.
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As health care providers look to provide more resources for acute mental health needs, "difficult" cuts are made to services at the UIHC's Eating Disorder Program.
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It's back-to-school time in Iowa. With students back on campuses across the state, The Gazette's higher education reporter Vanessa Miller joins the program to discuss the challenges college students, faculty, and administration are facing. IPR's Natalie Krebs discusses pre-back-to-school vaccines. Then two Iowa teachers have been awarded funding from the Society for Science so they can better help students, especially those from underserved and low-income communities, pursue a passion in science.
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UnityPoint Health says it is experiencing a shortage of intravenous contrast dyes used in some diagnostic imaging scans.
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A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found less than 8 percent of COVID patients in a remote monitoring program were hospitalized early in the pandemic.
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It’s been two years since the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Iowa, and the pandemic has had a drastic impact on Iowans’ lives and the state’s health care system. That's as Iowans settle into a new normal of living with and monitoring the virus.
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Experts say it remains vital that more parents get their kids vaccinated against COVID-19 as the number of vaccinations in young children remains low and physicians report seeing a drop in routine childhood vaccinations.
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Iowa health officials are reporting COVID-19 hospitalizations and test positivity rates continue to drop significantly as the state prepares to switch how it reports pandemic data next week.