rural health

Dementia, including Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, affects Latinos at a higher rate than whites.

Iowa is just starting to receive what will ultimately be $174 million in opioid settlement funds over the course of 18 years. But how the money will be spent is concerning public health experts and advocates.

New research sheds light on people diagnosed with ALS in rural areas, and there are several new rules and regulations concerning cannabis

Iowa has among the fewest number of OB-GYN specialists per capita of any state in the country, according to 2022 data from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform analyzed federal data and found 61 percent of rural Iowa hospitals no longer deliver babies.

At a time when many rural hospitals continue to make the tough choice to shutter their obstetrics units and stop delivering babies, some have found ways to make their units survive and, sometimes, even thrive.

A House subcommittee has advanced a bill that would require the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to provide oversight of temporary medical staffing agencies and cap wages for workers.

For some towns in rural Iowa, it's possible to shrink and yet still thrive.

You turn on the tap and expect clean water to come out, but that comes with a cost you might not realize. It takes a confluence of federal, state and local dollars to keep water flowing to a faucet near you.

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