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July 25When it comes to controlling health care costs, Minnesota has a pain in its lower back.Doctors, hospitals and patients in the state have a well-established reputation for being thrifty when it comes to using expensive, high-tech health care.But those frugal ways apparently don’t apply to initial treatments for low-back pain, according to a new [...]

MINNEAPOLIS – If you’re having a heart attack, you may not need an emergency room at all, according to a groundbreaking study at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.Researchers found that patients get faster care, and are more likely to survive, if an ambulance crew takes them straight to a specialized hospital "cath lab," where [...]

July 22If you’re having a heart attack, you may not need an emergency room at all, according to a groundbreaking study at United Hospital in St. Paul.Researchers found that patients get faster care, and are more likely to survive, if an ambulance crew takes them straight to a specialized hospital "cath lab," where doctors can [...]

Investigators publish new data in the report ‘Phase I study of bortezomib combined with chemotherapy in children with relapsed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): a report from the therapeutic advances in childhood leukemia (TACL) consortium.’ According to a study from the United States, "Outcomes remain poor for children after relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), [...]

Synovis Offers a Comprehensive Product Portfolio of Biomaterials and Devices to Repair and Reconstruct Soft Tissue ST. PAUL, Minn.(BUSINESS WIRE) Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNO), a leading biomaterial [...]

July 18Eric Halstensen goes to bed every night wondering if a tumor is growing in his brain. Every morning, he wakes up wondering if he will finally be able to get the MRI scans he needs."I could die in my sleep tonight and not even wake up," said Halstensen, 34. "I think about it all [...]

July 12Not long ago, it wasn’t unusual for nurse Kristin Liehr to roam the hallways of her St. Paul hospital searching for a wheelchair. Or a crib. Or a cart. Or dash out of a patient’s room for bandages or syringes. It would happen, she says, more than a dozen times a day.Nursing experts call [...]

VANCOUVER St. Pauls Hospital in Vancouver now has one of the most efficient and technologically advanced emergency departments in the country with the completion of a $14.7-million multi-phase emergency department redesign and renovation project, announced Health Services Minister Kevin Falcon.St. Pauls Hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the province, and provides [...]

July 09Just one week after they seemed poised to mount a massive strike, nurses at 14 hospitals in the Twin Cities voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ratify new labor contracts.The voting ended any chance that some or all of the more than 12,000 nurses represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association would strike over contract terms that [...]

July 08This won’t be a popular observation in some places, but because health-care cost pressures and the need for flexibility will only intensify, and because nurses and the rest of us deserve better, it must be said:By relying on an argument that demonized hospital managers and attempted to raise panic about pervasive mortal danger in [...]