IOWA CITY — Speaking a different language in a health care setting cannot only prevent patients from communicating aches and pains or doctors from relaying important medical news or instructions — it ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Health care providers at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are working to keep patients’ fears from being lost in translation. For several years, staff have had the ...

Interpreting a doctor’s information for her Spanish-speaking husband was the last thing Barbara Rayes wanted to do as she held her dying newborn daughter. “It wasn’t my job to interpret; that was ...

YAKIMA, Washington – When Maria Guadalupe Diaz-Lisaola and her husband, Refugio Cepeda, go to a medical appointment, it's usually a businesslike affair. Over the years, Diaz and Cepeda have faced ...