Health

A group of parents gathered at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis on Thursday to discuss the latest efforts to find the cause of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.

Terebinth Refuge, the state's first shelter and transitional home for adult victims of sex trafficking, opened in Waite Park this year. The goal is to bring hope to women who are trapped in a life of exploitation.

Michigan pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha exposed the impact on children from the lead in Flint's water system.

President Trump signed a bipartisan legislative package that will take steps to combat and prevent drug use and overdoses in America.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation urges drivers and pedestrians to pay close attention to the road as visibility worsens in the fall.

Single-payer health care has been floated by some progressive Democrats as a solution to a broken health care system. Republicans warn the system brings increased costs with few benefits.

Within days of an OD from opioids or other drugs, users in Huntington, W.Va., are visited by a quick-response team at home, the hospital or in jail. Reversing an OD is just recovery's first step.

Overdose deaths started to level off toward the end of 2017 and are "finally bending in the right direction," says Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Premiums are dropping. What's the cause?

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, "probably Alzheimer's disease."

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it's not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.

It all started with a strange and persistent feeling of weakness one day in September 2014.

Most people who struggle with depression and anxiety have heard that exercise is a mood-booster. But exercising with friends, especially playing a team sport, may help even more.

It was the science fiction film "Frankenstein" that inspired Bakken to become an electrical engineer. He co-founded the medical device company out of a northeast Minneapolis garage in 1949.

Congolese rebels killed 15 civilians and abducted a dozen children in an attack at the center of the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, Congo's military said Sunday, as the violence again forced the suspension of crucial virus containment efforts.

For the first time, a new immunotherapy drug has shown promise against breast cancer in a study that combined it with chemotherapy. But the benefit for most women was small, raising questions about whether the treatment is worth its high cost and side effects.

No illnesses have been reported so far from the six meat and potato products that have been recalled.

All kinds of bacteria live with us indoors, and some can make us sick. A new study shows that rooms exposed to light had about half the live bacteria found in rooms that were kept in darkness.

Last year over 6,400 Minnesotans wound up hospitalized because of the flu. Health officials stress the importance of getting vaccinated -- to protect yourself and the people around you.

Most of the 800 veterinarians surveyed feel ethical qualms when pet owners ask them to euthanize animals that could be treated, or when owners ask to keep pets alive who will suffer needlessly.