Health Care
Cedar Rapids dentist surrenders license after fraud, incompetence allegations
A Cedar Rapids dentist has agreed to surrender his license after the Iowa Dental Board charged him with failing to maintain competency standards and inappropriately prescribing drugs, according to an Oct. 2 story in the Iowa Capital Dispatch. The action…
St. Luke’s performs Cedar Rapids’ first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker implant
UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital has performed Cedar Rapids’ first implant of the AVEIR…
North Liberty-based Steel Therapeutics secures $2M in strategic investment
Steel Therapeutics, an early-stage pharmaceutical company based in North Liberty, has closed a $2 million…
Iowa Medical Society report outlines top priorities to address health care workforce shortage
The Iowa Medical Society has released a report identifying three strategies to help address Iowa’s…
IDT expands CRISPR portfolio to accelerate safe, personalized gene therapies
On the heels of its role in a historic medical milestone, Coralville-based Integrated DNA Technologies…
Three Cedar Rapids organizations to mark eighth year of Circle the City With Mercy
Mount Mercy University, the Catherine McAuley Center and Mercy Medical Center will continue their annual…
Iowa City VA physician receives national award for health professions education
Dr. Matthew Soltys, a staff physician at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, has been…
UI Health Care opens newly-renovated inpatient unit at downtown campus
A previously shuttered inpatient unit at the University of Iowa Health Care Downtown Campus –…
St. Luke’s Hospital, UIHC among top performing hospitals for heart attack treatment
UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital and UIHC Medical Center Downtown have each received the…
UI awarded $49.4M in arbitration over faulty hospital windows
The University of Iowa has been awarded $49.4 million in damages by an arbitration panel…
UI Health Care to open new clinic in Urbandale, consolidating specialty services
University of Iowa Health Care will open a new clinic in Urbandale on Sept. 9,…
His Hands Free Clinic to unveil donor wall, welcome new executive director at June 27 open house
His Hands Free Clinic will host an open house on Friday, June 27, at 1…
Businesses, organizations file lawsuit challenging new Iowa pharmacy regulations
A group of several businesses and organizations filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the new Iowa…
Hy-Vee Health Exemplar Care opens new Cedar Rapids clinic
Hy-Vee Health Exemplar Care has opened a new medical clinic in Cedar Rapids, expanding its…
UI commits $15M in P3 funds to advance cancer care, renovations in FY 2026
The University of Iowa will invest up to $15 million in public-private partnership (P3) funding…
UI Health Care chargemaster rates to increase beginning July 1
In addition to grocery store and building material costs, consumers – or in this case,…