by admin | Feb 28, 2005 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
The Iowa Department of public health is part of a project that seeks to improve the treatment of drug abusers. Janet Zwick of the Department’s Division of Behavioral Health says the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is providing funding for the effort. She says...
by admin | Feb 28, 2005 | News
Iowa basketball coach Steve Alford says he is not ready to call the current season “disapointing”. The Hawkeyes are 5-9 in the Big Ten after Saturday’s victory at Penn State, just their second win since leading scorer Pierre Pierce was kicked off the...
by admin | Feb 28, 2005 | Health & Medicine
An outbreak of syphilis is reported in eastern Iowa’s Scott County. Doctor Louis Katz, medical director of the county health department in Davenport, says four men have been diagnosed with the potentially-fatal sexually transmitted disease in the past ten weeks....
by admin | Feb 28, 2005 | Crime & Courts, Politics & Government
A bill making its way through the legislature sets a new penalty for drug runners who use secret compartments in vehicles to smuggle drugs. Representative David Tjepkes, a republican from Gowrie, says the crime would be a felony. The bill would make it a crime to...
by admin | Feb 28, 2005 | Education
The University of Iowa has acquired one of the world’s largest collections of science fiction fanzines. More than a quarter-million of the small-circulation publications are in dozens of boxes in Iowa City now and they’re being carefully catalogued. Sid...