Minnesota ranked ‘worst in the country’ at disciplining doctors, Strib series recounts
Doctors in Minnesota are less likely than their colleagues in other states to face disciplinary actions for misconduct.
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Statement from Susan G. Komen Board of Directors and Founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
Planned Parenthood controversy also exposes Komen’s corporate problem
Komen has acted questionably before on issues that affect women’s health — including their breast health.
How academic medical researchers have joined the assembly line
University of Minnesota bioethics professor and journalist Dr. Carl Elliott begun a weekly online column for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Komen’s decision on Planned Parenthood divides its supporters — and loses some
Some longtime Race for the Cure participants found themselves donating to Planned Parenthood in response — and questioning whether they’d run this year.
A simple tactic can get more school kids to eat their veggies, U of M study finds
Lining lunch trays with photographs of carrots more than tripled the number of kids eating them.
Medical interpreters in Minnesota: Little training or oversight
Many interpreters get little training and aren’t required to pass tests to work.
Are introverts an oppressed group?
“Introverts are to extroverts what American women were to men in the 1950s — second-class citizens with gigantic amounts of untapped talent.”
GOP response: Sen. Hann disputes Dayton/DFL’s health exchange plan
Sen. David Hann, the Republican voice of health insurance, disputes that Republicans ever supported something that looks like a health care exchange.
Minneapolis-St. Paul ranks 4th on ‘Staying Young’ list
A new ranking by the Real Age website lists Minneapolis-St. Paul as No. 4 on its “Best Cities For Staying Young” list.
Ritalin and other drugs aren’t the answer for kids with attention problems, U of M professor writes
In a provocative essay in Sunday’s New York Times, L. Alan Sroufe, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota and an expert in child development, argues that […]
Men more likely to develop mild cognitive problems, Mayo study finds
Men may be more vulnerable than women to developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as they age.
New research on ‘brown fat’ is interesting, but beware of the hype
Heat-generating brown fat “burns calories like a furnace.”
Time to retire the meme that depression is caused by low levels of serotonin
We tend to cling to medical ideas long after they’re out of date.
Debate on statin use by people without history of heart disease gets an airing
It’s been a year since a Cochrane Collaboration meta-analysis of 14 previously published studies called into question the common medical practice of prescribing statins to people who have high cholesterol but no history of heart disease.
The Cochra
‘Food insecurity’ high among Twin Cities parents
In the Twin Cities, food insecurity — the lack of consistent access to healthy, affordable food — is almost four times higher than previously believed and more than two-and-a-half times the national average, according to new research from the Univer
U of M study: Men spend more (and save less) when women are scarce
When women are scarce — or, at least, scarcer than men — the men tend to become more financially impulsive, saving less and borrowing more.
And women tend to expect men to spend more, too — on them.
Those findings are from an interesting new study
Paula Deen’s new anti-diabetes campaign is hard to swallow
Frankly, I’d never heard of the celebrity chef Paula Deen until Tuesday, when this “Queen of Southern Cuisine” announced on NBC’s “Today” show that yes, the rumors about her are true: she does have type 2 diabetes, and, yes, her doctor did make the
Will young athletes’ concussions eventually kill football?
Every parent who has a kid playing football needs to read Jonah Lehrer’s article on “The Fragile Teenage Brain,” which appears on the sports-and-pop-culture website Grantland.
Charges of scientific fraud add a bizarre twist to the controversial resveratrol story
As I’ve pointed out here before, despite all the marketing and media hype about resveratrol, the health claims for it remain scientifically shaky.
