Patients push for drug recycling amid transplant safety concerns
Spokesman Tom Moore defends patient safety as hospital probes possible pharmaceutical lapses in the transplant program. Dr You Min Wu stepped down after the incident. Fitzgerald credits Wu with saving his son’s life. Critics warn recycling drugs raises regulatory and environmental risks, while patients urge waivers to reuse returned medications under strict safeguards.
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Jerry Karbeling
Iowa Pharmacy Association
Kidnap Suspect Ravesteijn Identified in Elkhorn Case
FBI agents link local carpenter Reinier Ravesteijn to a kidnapping involving the Mann family. Detectives trace a TracFone number to a six mile lead and press for a trade while monitoring Ravesteijn’s past, including a 1997 breaking and entering charge. The family battles fear as investigators close in with a missing Heddie status and a hopeful lead.
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Netherlands
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Evensons
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Manns
Dick and
Judy Mann
Robert Mann
Rainforest Center at I-80 Site Plans Revealed
A proposed Rainforest/Impact venue near the First Avenue exit of I-80 envisions a 4.5 acre indoor rainforest a 1 million gallon aquarium and an amphitheater. The study by ConsultEcon estimates 1.3 million annual visitors and $90 million funding gap with 290 jobs and $9 million in annual payroll. Opening projected in 2008 pending financing.
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First Avenue
Bob Brais
ConsultEcon
Brais
Schools Taxes Could Help Plug Hole In Budget
The district may raise the property tax rate by 85 cents to 16.22 per 1000 if the 3 percent surtax stays. Commercial property owners would pay 10.8 percent more due to a 7.2 percent rise in value. A special meeting is set for April 1 to discuss the instructional support levy and budget actions, with potential April 15 votes. Residents may petition for a public election.
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Steve Graham
Cedar Rapids
Bill Hosford
Lisbon
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