Americans' voracious appetite for GLP-1 weight loss drugs has the nation on pace to spend more than $1 trillion on prescription drugs this year, a new report says.
- MARGERY A. BECK and ALI SWENSON Associated Press
Hundreds of rural hospitals face closure after years of funding problems, compounded last year by the Trump administration's Medicaid cuts.
- BEN GOSE The Chronicle of Philanthropy
"Your ZIP code should not determine your health outcomes," said Walter Panzirer, the Helmsley trustee who started the rural health program, "and yet for so many rural Americans, it does."
- MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has sued a patient who refuses to leave a hospital room, even though doctors discharged her more than five months ago.
- Renuka Rayasam KFF Health News
Health policy changes in Washington are set to cause millions of Americans to lose their Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage, leading to concerns about affording health care
- Lauren Sausser KFF Health News
More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the American Medical Association last December said prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care.
- TOM MURPHY, AAMER MADHANI and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press
Access to the obesity medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists has been a consistent problem for patients because of their cost and spotty insurance coverage.
America’s two largest retailers want to deliver prescriptions to your doorstep, sometimes in a matter of hours.
Hospitals say AI is helping their nurses, while unions argue the technology is overriding nurses' expertise and degrading quality of care.
Many Americans with high-deductible health insurance plans face a cold reality at the start of every year. However, patient advocates say there are ways to manage the challenge.
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The policy change came one day after the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, another major insurance company, was shot and killed in New York City.
In the past three years, Walgreens and CVS closed hundreds of stores, and Rite Aid shrank as it went through a bankruptcy reorganization.
OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw.
We've compiled pictures of different weapons that have come up during criminal investigations in Northeast Iowa in recent years.
View a free photo gallery documenting severe storm damage in Jasper and Newton counties, including destroyed businesses and widespread destruction.
Woodbine Elementary Principal Jill Ridder received the Milken Educator Award during an assembly with Iowa Education Director McKenzie Snow Thursday.
Nebraska survived on Sunday, beating Iowa for the first time in three years and securing the two seed in the Big Ten tournament.
Nebraska and Iowa split their regular-season matchups with each team prevailing on their homecourt. The winner of today's game will advance to play either Houston or Illinois on Saturday.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ryder Block has imagined for a long time what it would be like to wrestle under the bright lights of an NCAA Championship. It’s taken Block longer than he had hoped when he signed with the University of Iowa after a stellar career at Waverly-Shell Rock where he was a four-time state finalist and three-time champion while going 159-1 in his prep career. Two ACL surgeries ...
State regulators will impose triggers to protect prized trout fishery below the ‘pumped water storage’ facility on Seminoe Reservoir. Developer awaits final federal approval.
He will take the leadership baton from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whose term ends Friday but who will remain on the Fed board.
The last thing you want to think about now is taxes. You’ ve just completed your return, and hopefully received your refund. But the remaining $200 billion in refunds reflects excess withholding— i.e., the interest-free loan taxpayers made to the U.S. Treasury.
It will now be up to the S.C. Attorney General's Office to decide if it wishes to retry the case or dismiss it.
The April employment report was better than expected. The economy added 115,000 jobs (about twice what analysts predicted), and the unemployment rate remained at 4.3%.
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The owner of a Dow City bar will spend up to a decade in prison for sexually abusing an employee.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird called the shooting of a homeless man in a Denison park by a police officer "legally justified" in a report issued Tuesday afternoon.
An officer-involved shooting occurred Friday night in Washington Park in Denison, according to a news release from Crawford County Emergency Management.
Earl Jordan was captured on video allegedly swiping at an officer's face before grabbing the officer by the throat in another encounter. Video footage allegedly shows Jordan picking up a piece of metal fencing and hurling it toward the Capitol door.
It is the first bill passed out of a full chamber in this young legislative session, which started last week, signaling the issue’s importance to Iowa House Republicans.
Education groups and others raised questions Tuesday during an Iowa House subcommittee meeting about legislation that could potentially change continuing education requirements for licensed professionals.
Reclassification would not make it legal for recreational use nationwide, but it could change how the drug is regulated and reduce a hefty tax burden on the cannabis industry.