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For two years, federal funds have been available for states to extend postpartum health care from two months to a full year for moms on Medicaid. The policy is popular across the Midwest, with Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska all adopting an extension.

My mother suffered from depression all her life. It was not disabling - in addition to being a wife and mother, she managed to receive a degree in mechanical engineering,

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley got more than questions from constituents when he visited Fort Dodge Thursday. The Republican lawmaker also got, via telemedicin

People passing by the Fort Dodge firehouse at 1515 Central Ave. this summer may notice something a little different on the building’s northeast wall. They w

In just a few weeks, Fort Dodge will be home to the state of Iowa’s first-ever Safe Haven BabyBox. The box — a state-of-the-art climate-controlled safe

State Rep. Ann Meyer, R-Fort Dodge, has been heavily involved in efforts to improve the delivery of mental health care in Iowa since she took office in 2019.

Among them: C02 pipeline restrictions, sale of birth control pills with a prescription, guns in school parking lots, parental permission for social media

A bill state Rep. Ann Meyer wrote to help address a shortage of psychiatrists in Iowa has been signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds. “We are going to gradu

Local residents concerned about the prospect of wind turbines being erected across the northern part of Webster County should not expect the state legislature t

Iowa is in a shrinking minority of states that do not offer coverage under Medicaid to new mothers for 12 months after they give birth, and lawmakers are not likely to extend the coverage this year.