Health

Insider and former state official Manny Munson-Regala offers his take on how the industry is taking shape.

A month after 14-year-old Hunter Boutain died, federal lab tests show the teen succumbed to a bacterial infection, not a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Lake Minnewaska.

Minnesota turkey farmers are clamoring to vaccinate their flocks this fall against avian flu. But while initial tests in chickens are encouraging, the vaccine has plenty of downside.

Medicaid and MinnesotaCare represent about 70 percent of UCare's business. State officials say the health plan's offerings don't pass muster. UCare hopes to take its case to the governor.

A 14-year-old Minnesota boy who was believed to have died from an infection linked to a rare, brain swelling amoeba died instead from a bacterial infection, state health officials said Monday.

Isabel Sawhill of Brookings explores the social and economic consequences of the great increase in unmarried parents. She believes family structure has a big impact on child well-being, and can improve social mobility and reduce the class divide.

The physician and pharmacologist worked at the government agency in the early 1960s, when she uncovered a link between the drug and severe birth defects.

Epidemiologist Gary Slutkin has taken the lessons he's learned fighting TB and HIV/AIDS and applied them to stop the spread of gun violence. Because like those diseases, violence is contagious.

The way one fifth of Iowa's residents get health care is about to change. The governor is putting Medicaid in the hands of private insurance companies, and 11 firms are vying for that business.

Two years since being diagnosed with ALS, Bruce Kramer re-evaluates his priorities. As Christmas approaches, he has the time and solitude to appreciate the season more than ever.