health

According to the Minnesota Department of Health, this year's flu outbreak promises to be one of the worst and the friendly folks at Help Remedies want you to call out the disease vector that gave you the flu by using their new Facebook app.

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It must be all the lutefisk, lefse and bouja. The UHF released it's ranking of Healthiest States in the US, yesterday and the Gopher State squeaked into the Top 5.

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Nearly 60 community members filled the Sauk Rapids Government Center on Thursday night to hear David Wellstone, son of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, as he spoke healing after tragedy and community activism.

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Health officials say a woman with a bone infection has Minnesota's 13th confirmed illness linked to contaminated steroids from a Massachusetts pharmacy.

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None of us know how long our lives will be, and a new community organization wants you to know how important it is to plan for the end.

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Nearly 400,000 people of all ages experience Sudden Cardiac arrest every year in the U.S. With this in mind, the medical and arts communities of St. Cloud have partnered with experts from around the world to host the inaugural "Survive and Thrive" conference.

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We've all heard the legendary stories of Bud Grant, roaming the sidelines of the frozen Met Stadium in his shirtsleeves.  "No Heaters!", Bud would say.  "Cold is a state of mind!"

There may be something to that, after all

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Dr. David Acheson, an authority with 30 years in the field of food borne pathogens, was the keynote speaker of St. Cloud State University's inaugural Food Microbiology Symposium.

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It's National Depression Screening Day, a 24 hour educational campaign to stress that no one should live with depression.

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The Minnesota Department of Health has released their final report on last year's outbreak of blood infections, caused by a St. Cloud Hospital employee diverting narcotics for their own use.

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