Play3min 50secBird flu gone for a year, but mystery remainsJune 6, 2016 4:00 AMBy Mark SteilMinnesota has been free of bird flu for a year. The virus cost the state economy an estimated $650 million. Poultry producers are recovering from the outbreak, but exactly how the disease spread remains a mystery.
Play4min 28secStrike fears loom as 5,000 Twin Cities nurses weigh contractJune 6, 2016 4:00 AMBy Mark ZdechlikAllina Health nurses are set to vote Monday, but both sides are preparing for the possibility of strikes at four major Twin Cities hospitals.
Play50min 17secBBC special: 'The Inquiry: Are We Fighting Cancer the Right Way?'June 6, 2016 12:00 AMA BBC special report: "The Inquiry: Are We Fighting Cancer the Right Way?"
Play3min 55secPrince's death another loss in a decades-long opioid overdose epidemicJune 3, 2016 4:00 AMBy Jon CollinsThe superstar died from an overdose of fentanyl, an opioid drug. The news makes him a high-profile victim among tens of thousands of others who die of opioid overdoses annually.
Play8min 46secRose Judkins: A portrait of reslienceJune 3, 2016 12:00 AMBy Cathy WurzerFor most of us, June 1 came and went as most days do, but it was a special day for Judkins. June 1 marked seven years since Judkins was declared cancer free.
Play3min 48secPrince died from an overdose of fentanyl, 'the Ebola of opioids.' What is it?June 2, 2016 3:50 PMBy Jon Collins and Nancy YangExplaining the drug that caused the superstar's death. "Fentanyl is so potent, that any little error with the use of fentanyl leads to death," one addiction specialist said.
Play4min 02secHallberg's Picture of Health: What is fentanyl?June 2, 2016 2:54 PMBy Tom CrannThe Midwest Medical Examiner's Office autopsy report states that Prince died of a fentanyl overdose -- and that the drug was self-administered.
Bats in the bedroom can spread rabies without an obvious biteJune 2, 2016 1:00 PMWhen a Wyoming woman fell ill, no one suspected that she could have rabies from a bat in her bedroom. Health officials say sleeping in a room with a bat is a rabies risk because bites are hard to see.
Nonprofit hospital forgives debts, stops suing so many poor patientsJune 2, 2016 7:53 AMBy Chris Arnold and Paul Kiel, ProPublica Scrutiny by Sen. Charles Grassley and an investigation by NPR and ProPublica led a Missouri hospital to give $17 million in debt relief. Will other nonprofit hospitals follow suit?
Play4min 26secMinnesota heart researchers urge patients to 'ask about aspirin'June 2, 2016 4:00 AMBy Lorna BensonUsing aspirin to prevent heart attack or stroke isn't as common as public health experts feel it should be. A new statewide campaign launching today in Minnesota hopes to change that.
