Play5min 40secStaying safe while shoveling wet, heavy snowMarch 25, 2024 1:41 PMBy Cathy Wurzer and Alanna ElderThe combination of cold weather and strenuous exercise puts extra strain on your heart and can trigger a heart attack.
A mom's $97,000 question: How was an air-ambulance ride not medically necessary? March 25, 2024 4:00 AMBy Molly Castle Work There are legal safeguards to protect patients from big bills like out-of-network air-ambulance rides. But insurers may not pay if they decide the ride wasn't medically necessary.
Play4min 18secBemidji State University community works to prevent possible drug deathsMarch 25, 2024 4:00 AMBy Mathew Holding Eagle IIIThe CDC reports over one million people in the U.S. have died from drug overdoses since 1999. Bemidji State University, having experienced its own losses, is now taking action.
‘Forever chemicals’ prompt new, stricter advice for eating fish from MississippiMarch 22, 2024 4:14 PMBy Kirsti MarohnThe Minnesota Department of Health advises that people in certain groups, including those who are pregnant and children under 15, should not eat fish from the Mississippi between St. Paul and Wabasha.
Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapyMarch 22, 2024 1:11 PMBy The Associated PressKate, the Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. The video announcement Friday came after weeks of speculation spread on social media about her whereabouts and health since she was hospitalized in January for unspecified abdominal surgery.
Only 1 percent of Minnesotans ages 65 or older are up to date on COVID vaccineMarch 22, 2024 11:51 AMBy Craig HelmstetterThe latest Minnesota Department of Health data suggests people ages 65 or older and immunocompromised people of any age should get a second dose of the latest formulation of COVID-19 vaccine.
The ultimate green burial? Human composting lets you replenish the earth after deathMarch 22, 2024 8:14 AMBy April Dembosky Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That's why 29 percent of the bodies brought to Recompose, a composting facility in Seattle, come from out of state.
Prairie Island tribe set to open cannabis dispensary this summer near Red WingMarch 21, 2024 5:00 PMBy Catharine RichertThey will join Red Lake Nation and White Earth Nation in opening a dispensary and marks the first one to open in southern Minnesota.
More than 440,000 Starbucks mugs recalled after reports of a dozen injuries March 21, 2024 2:59 PMBy Jonathan Franklin The holiday-inspired mugs were sold online and in stores such as Target and Walmart from November 2023 through January 2024. The injuries included severe burns, blisters and cuts on hands and fingers.
U.S. life expectancy rebounded in 2022 but COVID and drug overdoses were still deadlyMarch 21, 2024 5:00 AMBy Brian Mann As the COVID pandemic faded in 2022, U.S. life expectancy rose by more than a year. But the virus and drug overdoses spurred by fentanyl still took nearly 300,000 lives.