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Film directors facing financial instability and reduction in opportunities
UK TV and film directors are facing financial instability due to irregular employment and a reduction in opportunities to work and earn ...
St. Francis reported no adverse health events over one-year period
This was one state health report of which St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee was happy to be excluded. The Minnesota Department of Health released its 12th annual Adverse Health ...
Report: State’s health care spending growth rate remains at near-historic low
Minnesota’s growth in health care spending during 2013 remained at historically low levels, according to a report released Thursday from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). Spending ...
State agencies unveil plan to fight antibiotic resistance
Leaders of four state agencies on Friday launched a major five-year plan to work together with partners in public health, health care, agribusiness, environmental protection and other fields to ...
Health chief: Prevention produces return on investment
Touring Hutchinson with about a dozen other bicyclists Friday, Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger marveled at the city’s trails, parks, public art and Farmers Market. “You have a ...
Melanoma rates on the rise in Minnesota
New data from the Minnesota Department of Health shows that melanoma skin cancer continues to be one of the most rapidly increasing cancers among Minnesota residents. Melanoma of the skin is a ...
Indoor tanning puts high school girls at risk
Despite warnings about the serious health dangers of indoor tanning, results from this year’s Minnesota Student Survey confirm that a large percentage of Minnesota high school girls are ...
Hospital safety improving in Minnesota
Deaths and patient harm related to adverse events in hospitals and other facilities have been trending downward during the 10 years that the Minnesota Department of Health has required hospitals ...
State releases report on chronic pain procedures
The Minnesota Department of Health has found that about 83,000 Minnesotans a year received chronic pain procedures during a three-year period. MDH was able to conduct this analysis for the ...
Hospitals work to minimize adverse health events
Hospitals in Hutchinson, Glencoe and Litchfield were responsible for a total of five adverse health events during a recent 12-month period, according to a report released last week by the ...
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Weight problem being remedied?
Headlines a few weeks announced that after more than three decades of unhealthy climbs, Minnesota’s obesity rate had dropped. Between 2014 and 2015, the rate dropped from 27.6 to 26.1 ...