Health

A California company claims its device can accurately detect whether a person has smoked pot in the last two hours, a window many consider the peak impairment time frame.

Doctors are far more likely to die by suicide than the rest of us. Some medical professionals are working to change that.

Researchers wanted to know why certain infections were increasing in hospitals. They were surprised by what they found.

Tokyo Medical University says it is investigating the reports. The points deduction was apparently aimed at keeping the number of female students at about 30 percent of the class.

A few dozen runners are traveling 200 miles from the Red Lake Indian Reservation to the powwow grounds on the Fond du Lac reservation.

Three people have been infected by a gastrointestinal illness after staying at Shades of Sherwood campground in Zumbrota. Health officials are asking anyone who stayed at the campground since July 1 to contact them.

The city's streets are so filthy that at least one infectious disease expert has compared San Francisco to some of the dirtiest slums in the world.

For trans Americans, the policy landscape has changed under the Trump administration, making it harder to get the cost of treatments such as gender confirmation surgery covered.

A horse in Pine City, Minn., is being treated for West Nile virus while officials urge vigilance from the public to prevent the disease from spreading.

The Minnesota Board of Pharmacy has voted to make many fentanyl analog drugs and synthetic cannabinoids illegal to have or sell.

President Trump has publicly called for drug companies to lower their prices. Would regulations help consumers or hinder the production of new products?

A new device signals when doctors and nurses have washed up -- and when they haven't.

A Muslim advocacy group says it welcomes the Minnesota Department of Education's decision to open an investigation into a student's suicide.

In the United States, suicide rates have spiked in the past two decades — and Minnesota has seen one of the biggest jumps. Public health officials are working to figure out why, and how to respond.

Around the United States, suicide rates are on the rise. In Minnesota alone, the rate increased nearly 41 percent between 1999 and 2016, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dehydration has long been known to slow physical performance. Now there's evidence that too little water can hurt cognitive performance, too, making complex thinking tasks harder.

Arthur Brooks is a classical musician and a behavioral economist. He ties together philosophy, art, music, social science and neuroscience to suggest ways you can find happiness and success in every stage of life.

The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, but California is leading the charge to reverse that trend. Since 2006, the state has cut its rate by more than half.

Cleveland-based Judge Dan Polster, who is overseeing more than 800 of the lawsuits in federal court, ruled Thursday that the data cannot be made public, saying that doing so would reveal trade secrets and "eviscerate" the terms under which the information was shared.

Tribal leaders believe a food truck once owned by famed Sioux Chef Sean Sherman can help connect White Earth members to healthier eating choices — and slow the reservation's diabetes epidemic.