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Hennepin Healthcare makes its case for more equity, inclusion training
The Minneapolis hospital now requires doctors and other health professionals to undergo equity and inclusion training. The program is atypical in the health field, but one that hospital leaders say is crucial in their mission to serve the entire city. Here’s how it works.
U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk
The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.
In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths
The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.
What we do — and don't yet — know about the malaria cases in the U.S.
Five local cases of malaria in the U.S. have been reported — mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite bit and infected the individuals. How worried should we be? Is climate change a factor?
Minnesota opens search for marijuana manager
Gov. Tim Walz will pick the first leader of Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management. An application process has begun.