public health

Health care workers from around Iowa talked about fatigue, burnout, and more on Talk of Iowa.

A new report by the non-profit Trust for America's Health found that Iowa is one of 16 states with an adult obesity rate above 35 percent.

The Iowa City Community School District became the latest to reinstate a mask mandate during a board meeting Tuesday night. The requirement goes into effect Wednesday, as do mandates in the Cedar Rapids and Des Moines school systems.

From climbing trees in her yard to scaling the canopy in the rainforest, a biologist explains the impact the interwoven tendrils of the tree canopy has on our environment.

The Iowa Board of Regents unanimously approved a plan Tuesday for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to build a new academic hospital and research center in North Liberty. State officials have signed off on the $395 million facility over the objections of other area hospitals.

Iowa has seen a surge in new cases of COVID-19. For health departments and nursing staffs, the second year of the pandemic is hitting hard.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics epidemiologist Melanie Wellington said the hospital is seeing an unusual uptick in children with respiratory infections typically seen in winter.

Iowa City Mayor Bruce Teague issued a mask mandate Thursday night requiring everyone in the city to wear a face covering in public spaces, citing the “alarming rate” of coronavirus cases. Notably, the order applies to both private businesses and public schools, as well as the University of Iowa.

Iowa's nurses have been vital to caring for the sickest COVID-19 patients. But nearly a year and a half into the pandemic, many are facing burnout.

Hundreds of faculty, staff and students across Iowa’s public universities are urging campus leaders to implement more coronavirus precautions as the delta variant fuels an increase in cases ahead of the fall semester. Petitions circulated at the schools call on school administrators and the Iowa Board of Regents to reinstate mask mandates and require vaccines, in line with other peer institutions.