BY RACHEL BRUNS, GUEST CONTRIBUTOR This is part 1 of an ongoing series on maternal health care from Rachel Bruns. I began my journey into Iowa’s maternal health system eight years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child. I asked my primary care doctor for an obstetrics recommendation Read more…
As told to Macey Shofroth | Photo by Duane Tinkey Shanna Sieck and her husband, Curtis, decided she’d stay home with their children after they were born. Her role of caregiver took on a whole new meaning when her middle son, Mason, was diagnosed with Gardner Syndrome at age 2. Read more…
Like many young adults at that time, the events of Sept.11, 2001, deeply impacted how Dr. Maija Cheung saw the world. After living in Ames from kindergarten through sixth grade and then completing the rest of her schooling in Kansas, she was attending college in the Northeast at the time Read more…
By Dr. Rachel Preisser, guest columnist As our state leads the nation in cancer rates, consistently ranking second-highest in overall cancer rate, navigating the financial landscape to access lifesaving breast cancer screening and diagnostic evaluation has become increasingly murky for both patients and physicians alike. When the Affordable Care Act Read more…
By Kate Hayden At some point in January 2020, I could tell my body was struggling. I knew how to listen. By then, it had been 12 years since I was diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and I was long past the carousel of medications and strict routines Read more…
Health greatly affects how women are able to show up in both work and life. When women in Iowa face barriers to receiving the health care they need, they struggle to thrive in many other aspects of their lives. The Fearless team held our second Fearless Focus of the year Read more…
Event details:Thursday, June 19 | Noon to 1 p.m. | Virtual | Register for free Women have long faced disparities in accessing adequate health care, and conditions that predominantly affect women have fewer studies dedicated to them. Iowa ranks last among all 50 states with the fewest obstetrics doctors per Read more…
When Hope Jensen was studying to become a nurse practitioner, she bought textbooks on reproductive endocrinology in hopes she’d learn about women’s health in ways her coursework wasn’t providing. This was around 2007. Five years earlier, the Women’s Health Initiative, the largest National Institutes of Health study ever focused on women’s Read more…
According to the Center for Disease Control, 30 states had reported a total of 935 confirmed measles cases as of May 1, 2025. The United States declared the virus eliminated in 2000, but experts say a decrease in vaccination rates has led to the return of the virus. Three measles deaths Read more…
