The COVID-19 pandemic took a big toll on Iowa’s health care workforce. Today, the state is facing a critical shortage of ...

A Coralville-based CDC worker who worked to raise awareness on Iowa's alarming cancer incident rates was laid off last week ...

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce ...

Charles Benbrook told an Iowa City audience this week that the state’s agriculture is too pesticide intensive, and the ...

Around 750 employees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, have been laid off in recent weeks, ...

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill Monday banning the administration of mRNA vaccines. The bill, Senate File 360, would outlaw ...

A bill aiming to increase cancer and other health coverage for public servants is moving through the Iowa state legislature.

Bri McNulty, 23, won her dream job as a CDC fellow working on cancer prevention in Iowa, the state with the second highest incidence of cancer. But she was fired, like so many federal workers.

The legislation would work to address the shortage of physicians -- especially in rural areas of the state -- by ...

Agricultural economist Charles Benbrook will lead a pair of discussions this week in Des Moines and Iowa City about pesticide ...

Before her termination, McNulty served as the outreach coordinator at the Iowa Cancer Consortium in Coralville. McNulty worked in that role since late 2023 as part of the CDC's Public Health ...