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Immigrants fear losing crucial health care if Minnesota legislators revoke access

MINNEAPOLIS — Micaela has spent three decades tirelessly cleaning houses, working as a clerk and now owns a ...

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CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women

PHILADELPHIA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer include COVID vaccines on its recommended ...

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Kids are getting stuck in Minnesota’s mental health care pipeline. Lawmakers are weighing a fix

Jade Miles and David Sabotta took a pause between therapy sessions on a recent Wednesday morning to decompress ...

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Freeborn County Public Health nurse has been in the role 33 years

Every once and a while, Anita Majerus of Freeborn County Public Health will get a phone call from ...

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Breaking the silence: Navigating resources for youth mental health

It may be overwhelming to figure out where to start if you’ve never sought treatment for a mental ...

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Osterholm: Federal health agency cuts, vaccine misinformation is ‘urgent issue’

By Tom Crann and Gretchen Brown, Minnesota Public Radio News With federal vaccine funding up in the air, a University ...

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Breaking the silence: ‘It becomes such an obsession’

A survey conducted last fall of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 by the Pew Research Center found ...

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Mayo Clinic changes name of its DEI office citing ‘recent national events’

Mayo Clinic is changing the name of its Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity. It will now be ...

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Presentation to take place surrounding health care for women veterans

All women veterans of southern Minnesota are invited to an open forum on questions regarding benefits, toxic exposure ...

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Lawmakers weigh funding to address rural cancer care disparity

A pilot program that aims to address a shortage of cancer care in rural Minnesota would receive funding ...

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Minnesota Department of Health announces layoffs amid federal funding cuts

The Minnesota Department of Health announced layoffs and reductions in public health services on Tuesday due to cuts ...

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Finstad announces 2025 Congressional Art Competition

First District Congressman Brad Finstad this week invited high school students from the 1st Congressional District to participate ...

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Attorney general reaches settlement with Mayo over charity care and debt-collection practices

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Friday that his office has obtained a settlement with Mayo Clinic that ...

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COVID boosted efforts to track diseases in wastewater

Every day, roughly 170 million gallons of wastewater from dozens of communities pass through the St. Paul Metro ...

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Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal

Michael Osterholm is the guy you call when you want to find out if that measles outbreak is ...

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