DAVENPORT, Iowa – Sept. 21, 2017 – More than 9,000 elementary school students in the region are expected to roll up their sleeves and help prevent the spread of seasonal influenza this season.

Legislation will increase access to healthcare for Illinoisans and empower nurses

DOWNERS GROVE (Sept. 20, 2017) – Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed HB 313, which will grant greater authority to registered and licensed nurses in administering health services and lift burdensome licensing regulations.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio today introduced bipartisan legislation to re-authorize the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.  The Strong Families Act of 2017, S.

Ankeny, IA, September 19, 2017 – The Iowa Chiropractic Society (ICS) is honored to have Gov. Kim Reynolds proclaim September as Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month.

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Sept. 20, 2017 – Two of the most annoying words for men of a certain age are enlarged and prostate.

A display at Genesis Medical Center, Davenport’s West Central Park campus on Thursday, Sept. 28 will take “enlarged prostate” to an entirely new level: 12 feet long, 12 feet wide and 10 feet tall.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa

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Garnishing wages. Turning over accounts to collection agents. Withholding services until an individual’s ability to pay is proven. These might seem like the practices of a big bank in the news for financial scandals. Instead, these tactics have surfaced at unexpected places: some of the country’s nonprofit, tax-exempt hospitals.

Multistate investigation probes whether opioid manufacturers and distributors engaged in unlawful practices in the marketing, sale, and distribution of opioids

DES MOINES – A bipartisan group of state attorneys general, including Attorney General Tom Miller, is expanding a multistate investigation into the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs as part of a widespread probe into the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics used to treat bacteria decline by five percent

Better health and well-being is on the horizon for area seniors.

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