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Health
Climate change and seasonal affective disorder
While SAD is most associated with winter, the heat and humidity of the summer months can also bring on a gloomy mood called summer-pattern SAD or summer depression.
‘Like a chain reaction’: UW-River Falls grappling with fourth student death in 2 months
The university is treating the four deaths as a suicide cluster and working to support its community and prevent further deaths ahead of its roughly 5,000 students returning for classes on Jan. 22.
Task force strives to foster better future of Minnesota health care by focusing on U of M
Former Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm is serving as the task force's chairperson, charged with making recommendations about the future of health at the U to the governor before the start of the 2024 legislative session.
Why are more young women getting breast cancer?
A survivor and her oncologist talk diagnosis, survivorship challenges and why breast cancer still kills 40,000 people each year.
Federal fix for rural hospitals gets few takers so far
Just 18 facilities were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals so far. Advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are needed to widen the reach and keep health care in rural communities.