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We’re more than a month into the so-called Ebola crisis and so far the number of Americans who’ve contracted the illness here and who weren’t bedside treating Ebola patients in a hospital stands at zero. Still.
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This is how you treat a person with Ebola. Read more →
The Twin Cities provides the backdrop for a music video unveiled this week by the website, Soul Pancake, in which a Tampa singer, Matt Hires, sings to support the local Ronald McDonald House. Read more →
If you’re keeping score, two people out of 319 million residents of the United States have contracted Ebola. Within a week or so, the Ebola “crisis” may be over. Read more →
Parents without a clue are calling the shots as the Ebola virus continues not spreading in the United States. Read more →
If you value your medical privacy, try not to get Ebola.
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A few weeks into the Ebola crisis, it often appears the Clampetts are in charge of the public health system. Read more →
Like the vanishing jetliner of months ago, Ebola is good business for the 24/7 news channels. That might explain why they won’t tell you that Ebola isn’t the threat we might think it is. Read more →
October is breast cancer awareness month, which means the annual debate over ‘pinkwashing’ is flaring anew. Read more →
Glen Campbell, the legendary singer and songwriter, is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, an illness, of course, with no happy endings.
This week, he released his final ballad, which he recorded in January, right after he stopped performing in public. But he remained faithful to his promise not to hide his journey with the illness so that he could shed light on what 44 million Americans are going through.
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Gov. Mark Dayton will hold a special meeting on Thursday with his cabinet and airport officials to discuss Ebola prevention and preparation efforts, MPR’s Tim Pugmire reports this afternoon. It’s a good idea, of course, and comes months after the Ebola health crisis surfaced in Africa. While some hospitals have already had response practices, the Read more →
The Associated Press today raises the specter of a changed relationship with the family dog. It lends credence to the possibility that the Ebola virus could be spread by dogs.
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Brittany Maynard found out recently that she has terminal brain cancer. She’s announced via YouTube that she intends to die two day’s after her husband’s birthday in November.
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A Harvard scientist has taken to song to provide an uplifting message during the Ebola outbreak.
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