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Questions about RSV and kids? This Minnesota pediatrician has answers
“Many of the kids who were born over the pandemic years and have not seen RSV or flu are being impacted more significantly, Dr. Sameer Gupta, Chief Medical Officer for University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, told MPR News Thursday.
Minnesota nurses set Dec. 11 strike date, plan 3-week walkout
The new strike threat covers more than a dozen hospitals around the Twin Cities and Duluth. Nurses walked out for three days in September. Despite the vote, Gov. Tim Walz said he’s “still incredibly hopeful” that a deal can be worked out.
Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans
When health bills aren't legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can't know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.
New approaches to managing type 2 diabetes 
One in ten Americans have diabetes. MPR News host Angela Davis talks about new ways of understanding this chronic disease and what we can do to help prevent type 2 diabetes and manage it.
ND high court asked to lift injunction against abortion ban
An attorney for North Dakota has asked the state Supreme Court to strike down an injunction that had blocked the state’s abortion ban, saying a lower court judge was wrong to grant it.