Aug 29, 2019 | Minnesota, News
By Paul Scott/Post Bulletin In late 2016, Minnesota’s office of the attorney general released an exhaustive, 67-page report on the opioid crisis in the state. Though Minnesota had been spared the worst of the epidemic — the pill mills and soaring death rates in...
Aug 14, 2019 | Minnesota, News
Written By: Paul Scott | Duluth News Tribune Beginning in January of 2020, the 6,500 diabetic patients with Medica insurance plans in Minnesota will see their insulin costs capped at $25 for every 30-day supply of insulin, the Minnetonka-based insurer announced...
Aug 7, 2019 | Minnesota, News
Written By: John Lundy | Duluth News Tribune A prominent American Indian health researcher has left the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Duluth campus for Johns Hopkins University along with her staff of 12 people. But Melissa Walls and her team aren’t moving...
Jul 17, 2019 | Minnesota, News
Written By: John Lundy | Duluth News Tribune The number of drug overdose deaths dropped steeply in Minnesota last year, the state Department of Health reported Tuesday. Calling the data preliminary, the health department said the number of overdose deaths in the state...
Jun 25, 2019 | Minnesota, News
A stroll in the woods as short as 15 minutes leads to physiological changes such as improved heart and mental health Written By: Melinda M. Lavine | Duluth News Tribune One of the things Trista Vucetich Anderson likes about living in Duluth is access to hiking. It...
Jun 13, 2019 | Minnesota, News
By Jennifer Kraus, Brainerd Dispatch Karla Milinovich shouldn’t be alive. She shouldn’t be able to breathe. She shouldn’t be able to walk. She shouldn’t be able to do anything she loves or hates to do. Milinovich should be dead. In fact, she...
