Bob CollinsAll those men who’ve chosen to ignore science in recent years have suddenly decided it’s not such a bad thing now that it’s declared that they’re suffering more than women when it comes to the flu. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Health
Scott Jensen, a Republican state senator from Carver County, might be a fan of the individual mandate, which requires people to carry health insurance.
That’s unusual in one of the state’s reddest districts.
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Lost amid all the focus on sexual harassment, Roy Moore, and the presidential tweets of the day is the fact that the Children’s Health Insurance Program will run out of money in February, sooner in some states.
The program was created two decades ago to ensure health care for kids whose parents don’t have a lot of money, yet make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. Read more →
Northwest Airlines has been relegated to the ash heap of history, but it made a bit of a proud return to the nation’s consciousness on Sunday when Norman Lyle Prouse told his story to CBS’ Sunday Morning. Read more →
Alas, we have reached another moment when Baby Boomers are told that their time is up. When the YMCA doesn’t want you anymore, it’s time to walk toward the sunset.
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Last September, Fox 9 reporter Courtney Godfrey lost part of her leg while boating on Christmas Lake. The boat’s propeller took her foot off; doctors had to amputate her leg.
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If there’s a kid you could pull for, it’s Garrett Grommesh of Moorhead, who was born with spina bifida and was just 10 years old in 2010 when the show Extreme Home Makeover showed up in Moorhead to build the family a new home near Concordia College. Read more →
Chris Hawkey, a radio talk show host in the Twin Cities, is certainly doing his part to convince people — especially men — to talk about mental illness and depression. Read more →
The description of the process used in the gene therapy is enough to make you proud to walk the same planet as the scientists who have figured out how to do it.
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Anyone who has spent any time at all posting to Facebook probably knows the reality of living in a fantasy world. Let’s face it: The images we’re uploading, the status updates we’re making, are only a part of our lives. We don’t generally post the other part, and in so doing, we create the illusion of our perfect lives for the benefit of others. Read more →
There are still too many people who believe the myth that showing you this picture and talking about what’s happening will lead more people to want to jump from a bridge. Read more →
Jeff Ernst has a mental illness, he acknowledges in an op-ed in today’s Star Tribune, and he writes that we’re all too eager to accept the portrayal of the mentally ill alongside people who’ll kill innocent people.
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A hospice volunteer in Itasca County doesn’t want a flu shot and she may lose her volunteer job if she doesn’t get one.
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Although a high-ranking politician in the United States calls our justice system ‘a joke’, you couldn’t tell it by Minnesota’s approach to drug users. Drug courts work by treating addiction as an illness and steering away from jail users who are willing to put in the time in a more productive way. Read more →
A Brainerd hospital is going to test whether it’s possible for a medical facility to treat only the “good” patients and avoid any sort of backlash with the policy. The chances are Essentia Health will succeed at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd because it’s refusing to admit patients with little constituency: the severely mentally ill.
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