Health

Children's hospitals in the Twin Cities are so busy treating children with respiratory problems that they have had to divert some patients to other hospitals. State health officials are trying to determine if the Enterovirus 68 virus is in Minnesota but so far have not confirmed it.

Researchers don't know why middle-aged men are increasingly likely to kill themselves. But they say it shows that efforts to reduce the toll of suicide should be focused on men.

Officials now say the water in Brainerd, Minn., is safe to drink without boiling. The news comes after test results showed no bacteria in the municipal water supply.

Experts disagree over how to rate the safety of helmets that high school football players use and even over how much any helmet can prevent concussions.

The killing of a western Minnesota boy by his stepmother is leading some state legislators to reconsider a child protection law they passed just four months ago.

Officials with the Massachusetts-based company say it faces more than 23,000 product liability claims related to transvaginal surgical mesh products.

In this episode, recorded earlier this year, an expanded conversation between host Tom Crann and Dr. Jon Hallberg about a new Surgeon General's report on smoking.

In the face of an ongoing boil order, a Minnesota community wrestles with questions about using chlorine in its municipal water system.

The fourth American aid worker sickened with the Ebola virus arrived Tuesday morning for treatment at Emory University Hospital, where two others have been successfully treated.

Federal officials are asking doctors to watch for the respiratory illness Enterovirus 68. There is no sign of it yet in Minnesota, but state health officials are testing eight samples.