Health

Dr. Katherine Nickels is one of 203 health care practitioners registered to participate in Minnesota's medical marijuana program.

A year after the state Legislature legalized medical marijuana, Minnesota's suppliers are now allowed to sell to the public. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Minnesota Medical Solutions sold its first few doses of cannabis.

Starting July 1, 2016, all children enrolled in public or private schools or day cares must be vaccinated, regardless of parents' religious and other personal beliefs.

A conversation on the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act.

African-American and American Indian infants in Minnesota are more than twice as likely as white babies to die in the first year. State health leaders say reducing racial disadvantages will help.

Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News moderates a panel about Obamacare featuring Nancy-Ann DeParle, a former head of Medicare and Medicaid and President Obama's health care advisor, and lawyer and journalist Steven Brill, author of the best-selling book, "America's Bitter Pill."

A tour of one of Minnesota's new medical marijuana dispensaries reveals that the stores will be secure clinical facilities with not a pot leaf in sight.

Scientists and engineers are bringing us closer to an understanding of how the brain works, and why it works the way it does.

Bruce Kramer knew that ALS was going to slowly and insidiously steal much of his body's abilities. That's what it does, and the time in which it takes the disease to claim its victims varies.

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report that came out in February contained some pretty game-changing advice that's been largely overlooked.