maternal health

Iowa would become one of the last states to extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women 12 months after giving birth under a bill advanced by a Senate subcommittee Monday.

The state of Iowa could directly send taxpayer dollars to anti-abortion pregnancy centers without using a third-party administrator under a new proposal in the Legislature.

A new lawsuit filed by Johnson County OB/GYNs who were at the center of a 2022 exceptional medical malpractice case have filed a lawsuit claiming their insurance company put its own financial interests above its clients' and used the case to influence Iowa politicians to pass tort reform.

Iowa received its first blanket of snow over the holiday weekend.

Yield Giving has donated more than $14 billion to more than 1,600 entities since 2019, including the Siouxland Community Health Center.

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services said it is reopening the search for an administrator to oversee a new state program of crisis pregnancy centers that support childbirth over abortion.

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.

Gov. Kim Reynolds is asking the Iowa Supreme Court to review a temporary injunction on an abortion law issued by a district judge earlier this week.

A look at how a lack of maternity healthcare resources in Iowa affects outcomes for parents and babies, plus how new abortion restrictions may impact care

A Polk County judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking an Iowa law that would ban abortion after cardiac activity is detected.