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The Minnesota Department of Health's first-ever such study finds high disparities among Indigenous, Black persons, with most deaths in the months following giving birth associated but not related to pregnancy. → Read More
A ban would halt the manufacture and sale of peppermint-flavored cigarettes and cigars. The cigarettes, which are used by 18.5 million Americans and 85% of Black smokers, are known to appeal to young users, increase tolerability, and make it harder to quit. Health officials say the ban would not result in the targeting of individual smokers for enforcement. → Read More
Rapid antigen kits may be running off the shelves, but with omicron, the meaning of both negative and positive results are changing. → Read More
Deaths grew by half a million from 2019, 350,000 due to COVID-19. → Read More
Researchers looked at data from 26 countries, 181 hospitals. Inflammatory processes believed to be mechanism at work. → Read More
"Influenza is out there and finding those cracks and taking advantage of opportunities for spread," said Mayo virologist Dr. Matthew Binnicker. → Read More
Lee Aase was doing everything right, but kept getting fatter. Now after going Keto he eats breakfast at 2 and wears smaller jeans than in high school. → Read More
The free online COVID-19 map can describe nationwide, statewide, and county-by-county transmission rates, predictions for future → Read More
Experts say latest form of COVID-19 shows a virus can play "the long game" by getting milder, but in some countries only. → Read More
Drugs would be taken multiple times a day, in place of monoclonal antibody infusions. → Read More
Macalester professor's new book is a provocative look at the limitations of today's treatment industry in the face of the modern opioid epidemic. The "reckoning" in Amy C. Sullivan's title stands for the collision between the polite traditions of getting sober in the 12 Steps and the need for ideology-free medical care in the face of a deadly scourge. → Read More
Children, dry air, small droplets all focus of new findings on the agents of transmission → Read More
Program to offer first year surveillance in Minneapolis and southeastern Minnesota for participating families → Read More
There were 46 deaths, 251 hospitalizations and over 6,700 cases among the fully vaccinated for the latest week available → Read More
Author of review article says dispute reflects a focus on individual rights while ignoring responsibilties → Read More
Health officials still processing a backlog of new cases that overwhelmed the system last weekend → Read More
Finding suggests population could act as a resevoir for viral mutation; uncertain whether deer can reinfect humans → Read More
New metric reflects cases in which a person has positive diagnosis more than 90 days after previous positive diagnosis. → Read More
Objections center on use of decades-old fetal cell lines in testing of some products, a process used in a host of medications. → Read More
Bacterial infection potentially deadly; purchasers urged to handle the products with care prior to returning them → Read More