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Clinic helps pets and their human companions at Red Lake

Clinic helps pets and their human companions at Red Lake

A weeklong pet care clinic on the Red Lake Reservation led by six animal welfare groups provided veterinary services and supplies. It happened in a place where it’s often the animals who adopt several families, not the other way round.
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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Advisers to the FDA back COVID vaccines for the youngest children

Advisers to the FDA back COVID vaccines for the youngest children

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.
by Scott Hensley

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To tackle maternal health disparities, one MN insurer looks to doula care

To tackle maternal health disparities, one MN insurer looks to doula care

Minnesota is among a handful of states that cover doula care for people on Medicaid. Though researchers say doula services could help shrink health inequities for pregnant women of color and their babies, few women use the benefit. Standing in their way is a tangle of challenges.
by Catharine Richert

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Two Minnesota children contract measles after traveling outside U.S.

Two children in Hennepin County developed symptoms shortly after returning from another country where the disease is common, the state Health Department said. The preschool-aged kids were unvaccinated, and one was hospitalized due to complications.
by Michelle Wiley

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State takes control of southeast Minnesota nursing home

The Minnesota Department of Health said a “growing list of unpaid bills and inability to meet payroll threatened staffing levels, critical services and medications for residents" of Pine Haven Care Center in Pine Island.
by Dan Gunderson

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Abortion funds feel frustration, gratitude at ‘rage giving’

Abortion funds feel frustration, gratitude at ‘rage giving’

Abortion funds, unlike clinics or advocacy organizations, focus on providing people with money to pay for abortions as well as help with logistics like travel, childcare and support. As a result, they have smaller budgets than broader reproductive rights organizations like Planned Parenthood.
by The Associated Press

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U.S. lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel

U.S. lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel

The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
by The Associated Press

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