A Coralville-based CDC worker who worked to raise awareness on Iowa's alarming cancer incident rates was laid off last week as part of massive purge.

Bri McNulty, 23, won her dream job as a CDC fellow working on cancer prevention in Iowa, the state with the second highest incidence of cancer. But she was fired, like so many federal workers.

The CDC reports Iowa has a "Very High" level of flu activity as hospitals continue to deal with a high number of hospitalizations.

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

Some doctors have called it the worst flu season in years. According to the CDC both Nebraska and Iowa are seeing very high levels of flu activity.

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

A Coralville-based CDC worker who worked to raise awareness on Iowa's alarming cancer incident rates was laid off last week as part of massive purge.

Iowa's Department of Health and Human Services says roughly 38% of PCR tests were positive, leading to more hospitalized people.

Some Denny's locations in Iowa have begun implementing a surcharge on every meal that includes eggs as a nationwide egg shortage continues to impact consumers. Denny's confirmed a temporary surcharge for every meal that includes eggs in an emailed statement to USA TODAY Tuesday.

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.

Before her termination, McNulty served as the outreach coordinator at the Iowa Cancer Consortium in Coralville. McNulty worked in that role since late 2023 as part of the CDC's Public Health ...

Without this CDC program, Sittig said the Iowa Cancer Consortium can't fund a position to replace McNulty, whose two-year contract was set to expire in October. The organization has had four ...