Health
Top Senate Republicans have less than two weeks to succeed and face a tough fight to win enough GOP support to reverse the summer's self-inflicted defeat on the party's high-priority issue.
Is it OK to take antidepressants or anxiety medicine during pregnancy? Recent research suggests women who need treatment can take these drugs. Doctors recommend the lowest effective dose.
For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics has weighed in on what teens and young adults (and their doctors and parents) need to know about safely getting piercings and tattoos.
This week the health care series turns to health professionals for solutions to the current Affordable Care Act reform stalemate.
Addiction dominates the headlines, but how to recover from addiction and live with its aftermath is often left out.
The federal health program for seniors and the disabled is removing Social Security numbers from the ID cards of 60 million people in an effort to prevent identity theft.
You won't find the pawpaw, which tastes like a cross between a mango and a banana, in most grocery stores, even though they're native to North America. But the locavore food movement has embraced it.
Health officials are exploring the possibility of food poisoning that affected about a fourth of the jail population. Lab test results could take several weeks.
Almost the entire southern half of Minnesota will have air quality unhealthy for some people on Friday, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says.
Don't understand what the independent Vermont senator's single-payer plan is? Here are the bullet points. (For starters, his new program would not look a whole lot like Medicare.)
Robert Moffit, senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies, discussed the effort to fix insurance.
Affected area include the Twin Cities, St. Cloud, Hinckley and the Tribal Nation of Mille Lacs, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said Wednesday. Conditions will make it unhealthy for some people to be outside.
What reforms do health insurers want to see on the table?
New rules -- such as giving chickens more space to roam -- were approved by the Obama administration, but put on hold under Trump. Now the organic industry is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Americans would get health coverage simply by showing a new government-issued card and would no longer owe out-of-pocket expenses like deductibles, according to legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders released Wednesday.
For decades the Pap test was the only option for cervical cancer screening. Now there's the HPV test, too. A federal task force says that for most women, either test will do just fine.
Researchers set out to answer this question: Is there a safe level of alcohol consumption during pregnancy? Turns out, that's a hard question to answer. The advice remains: Don't risk it.
As Congress takes on the task of revamping health care, MPR News host Tom Weber is turning to big thinkers in the field for their insight on the future of insurance in the United States.
Author Sigrid Rausing discusses how her family dealt with the drug addiction of her brother and his wife. Her sister-in-law ended up dying from her opiate use.
Mayo's decision to close intensive care, inpatient and labor and delivery services in Albert Lea and consolidate them in Austin have caused an uproar in Albert Lea.