Category: Health

Bailee Tordai, who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky old Jeep couldn’t complete the 2-mile trip from her house to the University of Iowa’s outreach clinic in her southeastern Iowa hometown. It was a hot June day, and a wiring problem made the Jeep conk out in the street. Read More

There’s enough to the growing monkeypox outbreak to give anyone a feeling of public health deja vu: Read More

No amount of alcohol is healthy if you are younger than 40, mostly due to alcohol-related deaths by auto accidents, injury and homicide, according to a new global study. Read More

As a global outbreak of monkeypox continues to grow, public health officials are stressing the importance of education in fighting the virus. Read More

This moment in time, like so many during the last two-plus years of the pandemic, is a confusing one for our country. Mixed signals make… Read More

This moment in time, like so many during the last two-plus years of the pandemic, is a confusing one for our country. Mixed signals make… Read More

In new clarifying guidance announced Wednesday, the Biden administration said that federal law does not allow pharmacies to turn away people who have a prescription for a drug that may end a pregnancy. Read More

The White House’s Covid-19 response team sent a clear message to the nation this week on the spread of the Omicron subvariant BA.5 and the importance of second vaccine booster doses for adults over the age of 50. Read More

After a US Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade was leaked in May, Dr. Joshua Trebach noticed a disturbing turn in the online conversation around abortion. Read More

A backpack, lunch box, crayons and at least 10 hours of sleep each night are all things children need to get off to a good start in kindergarten, according to a new study. Read More