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Highlights from Wellness Wednesday: Looking at hearing loss, tackling addictions
Will direct-to-consumer hearing aids make it easier to address hearing loss? MPR News host Angela Davis shares highlights from two Wellness Wednesday shows, one on hearing loss and another on tackling addictions.
If you're 40, it's time to start mammograms, according to new guidelines
The influential U.S. Preventive Task Force issue a draft of its new breast cancer screening guidelines. They're now recommending women start younger, amid a rise in breast cancer rates.
Minnesota hospitals put the heat on lawmakers to back away from health care package
Minnesota hospitals and the Mayo Clinic are pressuring lawmakers to back away from two proposals in both the House and Senate versions of a health care package. One provision would create a Health Care Affordability Board that would make recommendations to address rising costs. Another would give nurses more say in hospital staffing levels.
The FDA considers first birth control pill without a prescription
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.
Back pain shouldn't stop you from cooking at home. Here's how to adapt
A new cookbook offers kitchen techniques that reduce physical exertion. It aims to make home cooking accessible again for those with chronic back pain.
Future of Us: The pandemic offered workers a golden opportunity – but inequities to navigate
The pandemic gave workers fresh evidence that business doesn’t have to operate as usual. An organizational behavior expert says it’s an opportunity to make work better for people, if we can avoid creating new inequities in the process.