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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

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A civilized approach to mental illness pays off in Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2019, 8:47 AM May 23, 2019
4

Duluth police have had 31 percent fewer mental health-related calls, a confirmation that a more civilized approach to dealing with mental illness is working and deserves expansion throughout the state. Read more →

Health

NewsCut Flashback: How a victim of a civil war became a science giant

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2019, 1:47 PM May 20, 2019
1

Dr. Huda Zogbi was telling me her amazing story at the start of the hour, when I had to stop and turn to the other two guests and say, ‘you two talk among yourselves. I’m going to be talking to her for awhile.’ They understood. Read more →

Health · Politics

As more states ban abortion, a safe house movement grows

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 17, 2019, 7:46 AM May 17, 2019
84

This is a preview of what’s coming as state’s rush to ban abortion in an attempt to give the Supreme Court the tools to overturn a woman’s current constitutional right. Read more →

Health

When medicine makes its own miracles

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 16, 2019, 7:23 AM May 16, 2019
13

So stories of medical achievement in 2019, like the New York Times’ report today on Woods’ spinal surgery breakthrough, cause both moments of celebration and bittersweet reflection. Read more →

Health · Politics

An assessment of the president’s mental health

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 9, 2019, 7:06 AM May 9, 2019
60

We’re probably never going to see the full Mueller report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election in support of the person who won the election, but a group of psychiatrists have used the redacted version to offer a clinical diagnosis of the president’s mental health. Read more →

Health

A Minnesota couple struggles with ‘the cruelest disease you’ve never heard of’

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 6, 2019, 8:35 AM May 6, 2019
7

Heartbreaking, doesn’t do justice to the story of a Minnesota family who were included in last night’s CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast, which focused on a little known brand of dementia called frontotemporal dementia.
Read more →

Health · Science

Hospital unveils new tool for organ transplants: drones

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 1, 2019, 12:41 PM May 1, 2019
6

t the University of Maryland Medical Center, a woman received a kidney for transplant that was delivered by drone.

It was test, but it was a real kidney being used to bring it to a real patient who needed it, the New York Times reports. Read more →

Health · People doing good

NewsCut flashback: 13 reasons why not

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 30, 2019, 10:18 AM Apr 30, 2019
3

According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, teenage suicide spiked 28.9% after the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” premiered in 2017. That’s 195 dead kids more than would have been expected. Read more →

Health · People doing good

A sick boy, a housekeeper, and the cure for what ails you

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 26, 2019, 10:57 AM Apr 26, 2019
3

We apologize profusely for failing to notice Boyd’s Huppert’s story this week about the housekeeper at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Children’s Hospital and the 4-year-old boy he befriended Read more →

Health

In Fargo, a stunning display of deescalating a bad situation

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 8:02 AM Apr 19, 2019
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The news is full of stories of people in a mental health crisis ending up dead at the hands of people who were called to help. That’s why what happened in Fargo on Thursday night is a game changer. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Health

In challenge to rest of country, Calif. cops let drivers out of tickets if they’re organ donors

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 16, 2019, 2:16 PM Apr 16, 2019
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An idea in California is so brilliant, there’s no good reason it shouldn’t spread to the rest of the country. Read more →

Health · People doing good

Goodness of people in Wisconsin overburdens transplant system

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 11, 2019, 8:32 AM Apr 11, 2019
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When the Waukesha family’s story was told, people stepped up. So many people offered to be the donor, it crashed an overburdened screening process to select one. Read more →

Health · Politics

The state of assisted-suicide laws

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 11, 2019, 7:20 AM Apr 11, 2019
31

Like many other issues, there is a reckoning coming on the issue.

But not until it gets talked about. Read more →

Health

Anonymous letter writing flags an unvaccinated neighbor

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2019, 11:34 AM Apr 5, 2019
11

There’s little scientific question that vaccinating your kids is in their best interest and the best interest of everyone with whom they contact.

But the anonymous letter-writing is its own disease. Read more →

Health · People doing good

It took a nurse to find a mom for an addicted baby

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2019, 7:05 AM Apr 5, 2019
5

Gisele was born premature in 2016; she weighed only 2 pounds. That’s what happens when your mother uses heroin, cocaine and methadone during pregnancy. Read more →

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