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[KARE11 News, Nov. 24, 2009] It’s as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey—the travel. But this year’s trip seems to pack an extra punch: the threat of picking up H1N1 on board a crowded plane. “A sick person should not be around other people,” said Dr. Frank Rhame, an Infectious Disease Expert with [...]

[Pioneer press, Nov. 25, 2009] A continued decrease in reported H1N1 flu cases and an increase in vaccine stores will allow most people up to 24 years old to qualify for the vaccine, state health officials said Tuesday. The new vaccination guidelines will allow an estimated 2.7 million Minnesotan to qualify for the vaccine, compared [...]

[Pioneer Press, Nov. 20, 2009] A life-saving side market for the next generation of high-profile transcatheter devices also promises growth for med-tech companies. Life dealt Ruth Schuenke a tough hand last year. After her husband passed away in May following years with Alzheimer’s disease, the 84-year-old Burnsville resident saw her own health steadily decline due [...]

[Star Tribune, Nov. 21, 2009] Mammograms are in the spotlight as the uproar continues over how often and at what age women should get them. In the 1990s, Christine Norton would show up at the annual Twin Cities Women’s Expo for three days in a row to hand out instruction cards on breast self-exams. She [...]

[WCCO-TV, Nov. 22, 2009] Dr. Deb Day, the medical director of Allina’s Piper Breast Center, on the WCCO 4 News Sunday Morning show today, said Allina will continue to recommend annual mammograms for women starting at age 40. Watch the interview on wcco.com or watch below.

[Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 20, 2009] New guidelines recommending against yearly mammograms for women between the ages of 40 and 49 are creating confusion and anxiety among women, and stirring anger in the medical community. While some say the new guidelines are a welcome change, many doctors say they will continue to recommend yearly screening [...]

[Allina Newsroom, Nov. 18, 2009] Dr. Timothy Sielaff, president of Allina Hospitals & Clinics’ Virginia Piper Cancer Institute, released the following statement on the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years. The USPSTF is one of several different groups offering screening mammography recommendations. Other [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 17, 2009] Most Minnesota counties now have enough doses to begin offering very limited public vaccination clinics targeting kids age nine and younger. For most parents, these will be the first openly publicized H1N1 clinics since supplies of the vaccine started trickling in to the state more than a month ago. [...]

[The Annandale Advocate, Nov. 17, 2009] The long awaited H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Minnesota’s Wright County clinics, but it’s not available to everyone. All Allina clinics, including Annandale, have a limited supply of H1N1 vaccine for pregnant women, children 6 months through 4 years, and people ages 5 to 18 who have compromised conditions, [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 14, 2009] As evidenced by the Heart of New Ulm Project Summit report provided to the public last weekend, the project definitely is off to a fast start, allowing those involved in the project to get more specific in 2010, the second year of a 10-year initiative to greatly reduce the [...]

[WCCO-TV, Nov. 10, 2009] A Minnesota mother believes her baby is alive because of what doctors did while the baby was still half in the womb. “She’s a trooper. She’s very strong,” Jennifer Kuklok said about her daughter Lilyana. Lilyana is now 6 weeks old and is recovering from a rare surgery because of a [...]

[Allina Newsroom, Nov. 9, 2009] Allina Hospitals & Clinics will award the City of New Brighton the Heart Safe Community designation at this evening’s city council meeting at 6:30 p.m. New Brighton is the first Minnesota city to earn this designation. It recognizes the city’s efforts to prepare its staff and citizens to recognize when [...]