A bill to make it a crime to administer mRNA vaccines in Iowa — like the Moderna and Pfizer COVID shots — has cleared initial review in the Iowa Senate. However, the bill’s sponsor plans to adjust the legislation and instead give Iowans a route to...
Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Davenport says email obtained by a U.S. House subcommittee shows the senior scientific advisor in the National Institutes of Health has made vile comments about women in medicine. Miller-Meeks questioned Dr. David...
A federal appeals court has upheld a 2021 state law that bans schools from issuing mask mandates. A group of families filed a federal lawsuit, arguing Iowa schools must allowed to require masking to protect their children who have disabilities that make them...
With cases of COVID-19 rising again, the federal government has re-started its program of offering Americans free at-home testing kits. A health official says Iowans should double-check the expiration date on any older kits they have before throwing them out —...
Cases of COVID-19 are again rising nationwide, and the experts say more Iowans are becoming vulnerable to what’s known as “long COVID,” or persistent symptoms that last for several weeks, even months. Lauren Graham, director of the post-COVID clinic...
