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Ain’t too proud to beg

Bob Collins January 22, 2013, 12:50 PM Jan 22, 2013

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An Oregon man has been waiting a year for a kidney. Now he’s begging by the side of the road.

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The amazing flu

Bob Collins January 17, 2013, 3:35 PM Jan 17, 2013

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It’s almost hard to hate the flu when you realize the amazing things it does.

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Mental health and gun control up close

Bob Collins January 16, 2013, 1:16 PM Jan 16, 2013

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Could New York state’s new gun law backfire when it comes to people with a mental illness? Some experts think so.

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Flu: ‘It’s important to keep this in perspective’

Bob Collins January 10, 2013, 3:40 PM Jan 10, 2013

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It’s a bad year for the flu, but it’s not worth panicking over.

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More evidence: Football is killing some of its players

Bob Collins January 10, 2013, 1:57 PM Jan 10, 2013

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ESPN/ABC reports that football star Junior Seau’s brain had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that can lead to dementia, memory loss and depression.

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Study: 1 of 8 teens thinks of suicide

Bob Collins January 10, 2013, 11:57 AM Jan 10, 2013

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Quite often, the message conveyed in suicide prevention is that if you ask for help, things will get better. That’s not always the case, however. A study released this week shows more than half of the young people who planned, thought of, or attempted to kill themselves had received at least some treatment. Nearly 1,400 Read more →

A foolproof way to stop the spread of the flu

Bob Collins January 9, 2013, 10:55 AM Jan 9, 2013

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Get a flu shot, wash your hands regularly, and remind your boss today to change the culture of the American workplace.

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This scene made possible by proper health care

Bob Collins January 3, 2013, 1:03 PM Jan 3, 2013

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A nice moment at the Capitol might not have been possible were it not for accessibility to health care coverage.

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Whatever happened to: The guy who needed the liver transplant?

Bob Collins December 31, 2012, 1:11 PM Dec 31, 2012

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Joel Beeson, a journalism professor in West Virginia, was all set to be the recipient of a new liver when the Cleveland Clinic lowered the top age of donors to 55, and his donor was older than that.

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No smoking, 3M style

Bob Collins December 24, 2012, 4:25 PM Dec 24, 2012

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On January 1, 3M bans smoking on its entire Maplewood campus.

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Right baby, wrong mother. Or right mother, wrong baby

Bob Collins December 6, 2012, 12:55 PM Dec 6, 2012

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How often are babies given to the wrong mothers in hospitals?

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Who owns your medical data?

Bob Collins December 4, 2012, 2:06 PM Dec 4, 2012

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Privacy and ethics laws can’t possibly keep up with the pace of medical technology.

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The unanswerable questions in Cold Spring

Bob Collins November 30, 2012, 12:21 PM Nov 30, 2012

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I want to make things all better for four kids in Cold Spring today and, of course, I can’t. I don’t know what to do and I recoil at the notion that there’s nothing any of us can do but cry out and move on.

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