Twin Cities Business
Minnesota businessman Ken Melrose donates $18.7 Million to HealthPartners’ Melrose Center
The largest individual donation in HealthPartners’ history, the gift will go toward enhancing care for patients with eating disorders.
Health
National
Voters consistently rank health care as their top political concern. What does that mean for Minnesota’s House races?
Democrats are increasingly rallying around single-payer; meanwhile, you don’t hear “repeal-and-replace” from many Republicans these days.
Second Opinion
Taking 10,000 steps a day may be a healthy fitness goal, but it’s also an arbitrary one
Few of us ask where the 10,000-steps-a-day goal came from. Why that particular number of steps? Why not 5,000 — or 15,000?
Second Opinion
New child car seat recommendations focus on height and weight rather than age
“It’s best to keep your child rear-facing as long as possible. This is still the safest way for children to ride,” said Dr. Benjamin Hoffman, the lead author of the policy statement.
Education
How an innovative program at the U of M Medical School could change the way doctors are trained in the U.S.
“It’s a huge deal and it’s causing a lot of stir in the medical education world,” Patty Hobday, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, says of EPAC.
Environment
Particles, man: New research quantifies life-shortening effects of ubiquitous air pollutant
In some cities, just breathing the air for a day can have the equivalent health effect of smoking a cigarette.
Health
What killed Minnesotans in 1888, what killed them in 2016, and why it changed
For one thing, no doctor would write “diseases of insane” on a death certificate today.
Politics & Policy
Add to the list of people hit by the opioid epidemic in Minnesota: medical examiners
Overdose deaths are inherently suspicious and usually require a full autopsy — plus toxicology testing.
Politics & Policy
With repeal and replace dead, Congress is getting down to business on stabilizing Obamacare
Obamacare may be back from the brink, but it is far from being in the clear.
Politics & Policy
We know that prescriptions are helping drive the opioid epidemic. So why are some Minnesota counties’ opioid prescription rates going up?
Some counties seem to have gotten the message about reducing dependence on painkillers. Others, not so much.