Health

The Minnesota Department of Health said sexually transmitted disease infections are on the rise in the state, and sexually active people at elevated risk should seeking testing at least annually.

Rule changes from the Trump administration offer exemptions for people in areas with only one marketplace plan, as well as for some who oppose abortion and can't find a health plan that excludes it.

Hennepin County became the fourth county in the country today to join an international campaign that changes how public health officials respond to HIV prevention and care.

An FDA advisory committee last week urged approval of a drug containing cannabidiol to treat a form of epilepsy. Other scientists wonder if CBD might ease anxiety or other disorders, too.

The Mayo Clinic says that only one in three of its surgical patients used opioids prescribed after discharge.

One of Prince's sisters took to Twitter Friday , expressing disappointment about the way the death investigation was handled.

Officials advise that consumers, restaurants and retailers should throw out any chopped romaine lettuce that came from the Yuma area.

The legislation comes as airlines deal with rising numbers of people who want their animals with them in the airplane cabin. All 67 senators voted for the bill.

A bipartisan group of supporters of a fee paid by pharmaceutical companies for every opioid they sell in the state continue to push. That's despite dimming prospects for the legislation.

A closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the United States, health officials say.

A Minnetonka 16-year-old won an essay contest for a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for herself and three of her friends. She's leaving behind her parents and her cancer.

Getting the Alzheimer's patient into a study before they exhibited symptoms is the goal. But is it beneficial to the patient to know they might have a disease with no known cure?

The eggs were sold in nine states, according to the FDA. They are labeled under a number of brands, including Coburn Farms, Country Daybreak, the Food Lion store brand, Great Value and Sunshine Farms.

"That sense of being touch with something dark and deep was part of the lure [of addiction]," Jamison told host Kerri Miller.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services said there is no way it can economically recover more than $30 million in unpaid health premiums the agency billed improperly.

University of Minnesota bioethicist Dr. Carl Elliott has long pondered that question. He spent years taking his own employer, the University of Minnesota, to task over its handling of the suicide of a psychiatric research participant. Now, he's writing a book about whistleblowers in the medical research field.

Chronic pain patients who have been prescribed opioids fear that they're being overlooked as officials and doctors scramble to prevent overdoses.

Former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday he has had a change of heart on marijuana and will promote its nationwide legalization as a way to help veterans and the nation's deadly opioid crisis.

A new national analysis of what is called "years of life lost," concludes Minnesotans die prematurely at lower rates than residents of any other state.