WASHINGTON, D.C. — Days before an expected vote on health care reform in the U.S. House, thousands of protesters descended on the Capitol Thursday to rally around Rep. Michele Bachmann and other GOP lawmakers who have denounced the legislation.

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Steve Knutson, executive director of the Fremont Community Clinics system, says, "We can have providers do wonderful things and intervene early, but if we don't have a willing patient on the other side of the table we're not going to get to an endpoint."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A key committee chair and top NFL and Major League Baseball officials say yes. Players’ reps and a law professor say no, arguing for other ways to handle the impasse.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite predictions by House Democrats that they will pass their new health-care reform legislation as early as next week, Minnesota's House delegation is giving the massive bill mixed reviews and at least one of its Democrats is strongly considering voting against the proposal.

"It is simply a matter of when and what," the former UnitedHealth Group executive told a Hubert H. Humphrey Institute audience on Wednesday.

For five years, researchers at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere studied wolf 527F as she roamed Yellowstone National Park wearing a radio collar. Earlier this month, a hunter shot 527F — raising questions about wolf hunting and wolf research.

As state lawmakers and advocates for the poor look for cost savings to restore some vestige of the General Assistance Medical Care program, setting up medical respite care for the homeless is among the ground-level solutions under consideration.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the high-stakes battle over health care escalates in Congress, Minnesota's medical industry is pouring millions into lobbying with Medtronic and United Health Group alone spending more than $6.7 million this year to make their case to lawmakers.

The first State Fair "swine flu" case opens a window into fascinating questions of why humans share flu viruses with pigs and birds but don't seem to infect cats and dogs — the animals that breathe the air in our homes, steal our food scraps and often even sleep in our beds.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — I'm encouraging my beloved son to leave this country because he can't get what he needs at home — affordable health insurance.