CEDAR RAPIDS – St. Luke’s Auxiliary is lighting up the St. Luke’s Hospital campus with its annual “Light the Avenue” event. Each year, the trees along A Avenue at St. Luke’s are decorated with winter lights and the public is invited to attend the ceremonial lighting of the Avenue. This free event starts at...
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IOWA CITY – A good rain could help, but allergy sufferers might not find longer-term relief until Iowa has a hard freeze. The allergy season has been extended this year in areas of the state where temperatures have not dropped below freezing. Iowa’s first average frost ranges from late September in the north to...
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The Iowa Chapter of the ALS Association sent the following today about implementation of a national registry: The federal government took a major step today in the fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease as the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the full implementation of the National ALS Registry.  Beginning today, people...
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More than 150 Iowa health care workers received payments totaling more than $1.6 million from drug companies since 2009, according to a new national database compiled by ProPublica, an independent journalism nonprofit. To read the ProPublica stories and see the searchable database of health care workers, go to: http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/. According to database, seven drug companies paid 241...
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The Food and Drug Administration has released a copy of the following letter to Decoster farms in Iowa in connection with a nationwide salmonella outbreak:  October 15, 2010 SENT VIA UPS WARNING LETTER Ref. KAN 2011-01 Mr. Austin J. Decoster, Owner Quality Egg LLC 2674 Highway 69 Galt, IA 50101 Dear Mr. Decoster: In...
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CORALVILLE - The public is invited to a conference focused on one of the state’s most urgent health care needs — chronic disease. The conference runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the Coralville Marriott, 300 E. 9th St., Coralville, Iowa. “Prevention and Chronic Care Management: Community Strategies to Address...
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CPR has saved countless lives over the years, and generations of people have learned how to do the procedure. Monday, the American Heart Association said new research shows people should do CPR differently. But, the largest CPR trainer, the American Red Cross, has not endorsed those changes quite yet. For years, people doing CPR...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Samuel Gordon understands the importance of CPR. The Coe College freshman owes his life to a group of students who resuscitated Gordon after he collapsed during a workout. “The CPR was keeping the blood pumping to my body; making sure I didn’t go brain dead,” said Gordon, 18, of Highlands Ranch,...
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Co-worker KJ Pilcher wrote an inspiring story about an amazing little girl, Sierra Gilson. See the article here
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William Therrien and John Hosp, associate professors in the University of Iowa College of Education Department of Teaching and Learning, have received a $1.25 million U.S. Department of Education grant to help train graduate students as special education leaders. The grant, titled “Special Education Leaders for Iowa (SELIA): Training the Next Generation to Serve...
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