Archives for November 2015

[Star Tribune, November 25, 2015]   Thanksgiving used to be the biggest eating day of the year. “An unbuckle-your-belt kind of a day,” said Mary Johnston, 57, of Brooklyn Park.
November 25, 2015
[KSTP TV, November 24, 2015]   It would be a challenge for many us. Climbing a huge wall isn’t easy, but imagine doing it with physical challenges.
November 24, 2015
[KSTP TV, November 20, 2015]   St. Paul Public Schools is expanding eye exams for younger students. On Monday, the Otto Bremer Foundation announced a $250,000 challenge grant to pay for eye screenings in school.
November 20, 2015
[KSTP TV, November 20, 2015]   Cancer doesn't have to be a death sentence. So, what happens after you go through treatment and survive?
November 20, 2015
[Faribault Daily News, November 19, 2015]   On Jan. 11, 2016, Faribault Area Hospice will no longer be an operation of District One Hospital, since it has been absorbed by Allina Health Hospice.
November 19, 2015
[MINNPOST, November 16, 2015]   Kids who can’t see can’t learn. That’s an intuitive conviction for many educators — and a proven phenomenon for health experts like Phillips Eye Institute Foundation Executive Director Beverly Fritz.
November 16, 2015
[KARE-TV, November 14, 2015]   As many as one in seven new moms are suffering from postpartum depression. About 50 percent of those women go untreated and unrecognized.
November 14, 2015
[Eden Prairie Sun Current, November 13, 2015]   In fourth grade, Rob Johnston was told by doctors that his heart had a murmur. As time progressed, he thought he outgrew it.
November 13, 2015
[Isanti County News, November 11, 2015]   An innovative medical device is providing physicians with a safer way to treat brain aneurysms. The Pipeline embolization device is a braided wire mesh cylindrical device that is placed across the neck of an aneurysm, a blood-filled ballooning wall of a blood vessel.
November 11, 2015
[KMSP-TV, November 08, 2015]   For the first time, actor Robin Williams' widow said Williams had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. And that was likely the reason he committed suicide.
November 10, 2015