Dr. Rami Boutros often notices when, as a patient, he walks through a clinic staff area on his way to an exam room and sees doctors and nurses busy working or discussing patients. “As a patient I’ve walked many times next to people and I wonder ‘what’s going on,’ ” he said. “There is a [...]

About this project: IowaWatch.org, the Burlington Hawk Eye, The Gazette, Iowa City Press-Citizen and the Dubuque Telegraph Herald worked together this summer to report on the need for health care facing Iowans who do not have insurance. They reviewed more than two dozen documents and interviewed two dozen people.   Cynthia Houston didn’t panic when [...]

Mike Meyer, a 23-year-old Marine from Pensacola, Fla., remembers being sick and going to the hospital in March in Okinawa, Japan, where he was stationed with the military, and he remembers waking up two months later at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in a state where he’d never before set foot. What happened in [...]

CEDAR FALLS — Several new academic programs at the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University and a new institute on human genetics at the University of Iowa were recommended for approval by a state Board of Regents committee Thursday. The board’s education and student affairs committee met Thursday in Cedar Falls and forwarded [...]

Deegan Mizaur’s heart-melting smiles, sweet babbles and unending curiosity belie his traumatic start in life. Born without a pulse during an emergency C-section in October, Deegan was revived and immediately placed in a cooling blanket in hopes of minimizing potential disabilities. “They didn’t think he’d survive the first night,” said his mother, Graham Ziese, 30, [...]

The budget cuts of the past several years contributed to an increase in delayed building and facility repairs at the state’s public universities, officials say, though they add they have been working to make the maintenance a priority. In the past five years, deferred maintenance for general fund buildings at the regent institutions increased from [...]

  Experts say a proliferation of hospital-affiliated primary care and urgent care clinics is part of the future wave of health care. The clinics help provide the access, continuity and integration of care that are hallmarks of health care reform, while at the same time promoting “brand” loyalty to the hospitals, said Scott McIntyre, communications [...]

Even before former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested in November on allegations he sexually assaulted young boys, the number of assessed reports of child abuse and neglect in Iowa was rising. After authorities arrested Sandusky and several of his colleagues — mandatory reporters accused of failing to report knowledge of the abuse — [...]

A suspended University of Iowa radiology professor has sent a letter of resignation to the school after a lengthy battle that played out in the courts and is still costing the UI money. Malik Juweid’s former attorney Rockne Cole earlier this month withdrew his whistleblower lawsuit against UI officials, telling a judge his client would [...]