New CDC population data from 2023 show that in 23 states more than one in three adults (35 percent) has obesity. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35 percent. Currently ...

Keshon Gilbert scored 17 points and Tamin Lipsey added 16 as No. 5 Iowa State routed Mississippi Valley State 83-44 for its ...

Here’s what health experts are weighing as the public health practice of adding fluoride to America’s water supply comes under increased scrutiny.

Health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Iowa Department of Health, are ...

McDonald's faced an E. coli outbreak. Recent food safety issues have led to investigations by FSIS and other agencies to ...

About 90 percent of Iowa’s population receives water that has been treated with fluoride. But what is it? What does it do? And why do some cities not treat their water?

State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past four weeks, including rodent infestations, “slimy” lettuce, long-expired ...

MercyOne and Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines have both seen an increase in pediatric walking pneumonia infections.

Consumers make choices about what and where they’ll eat based on quality, convenience and price. But higher on the hierarchy of needs is the basic requirement that the food you ...

Fluoride helps make teeth “stronger and more resistant to decay,” according to the CDC’s website, and drinking fluoridated ...

As the weather cools the respiratory illness season is ramping up. Across the Midwest, and right here in Iowa, walking ...

But now, there’s a new deadly virus that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking. Lassa fever is a ...