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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 [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 9, 2009] New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) will conduct an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 at 5 p.m. The clinic will go until 8 p.m. or until the supply of vaccine has been exhausted. The clinic will be held in the third floor hospital auditorium. Please use [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 8, 2009] NBC’s “Biggest Loser” health and motivational expert, Bob Harper came close to packing the former Middle School’s auditorium Saturday night. Of course, that was what organizers of the Heart of New Ulm program were hoping to do by bringing Harper in as the “clean-up” hitter for the first annual [...]

[Star Tribune, Nov. 7, 2009] For months, travelers have been zooming through the skies, locked into a tight space with strangers, without benefit of an H1N1 vaccination. That situation probably won’t change before Thanksgiving, historically the busiest travel season of the year. The Minnesota Department of Health reports that the majority of doses of the [...]

[WCCO-TV, Nov. 8, 2009] Allina Hospitals & Clinics Vice President for Safety, Judith Napier, part of Allina’s H1N1 planning team, was interviewed on WCCO 4 News Sunday Morning  by Esme Murphy on the elusive H1N1 vaccine and the challenges the virus poses to health care organizations. Watch the interview at wcco.com or click below.

[KARE-TV, Nov. 7, 2009] There’s a revolutionary new health project taking place right here in Minnesota that’s changing the pulse of an entire community. Today The Heart of New Ulm celebrates a first anniversary tonight and 40-year-old Cindy Wall will be there. Wall says, “My dad had quadruple bypass surgery and so I thought we’ll, [...]

[Anoka County Union, Nov. 5, 2009] One year after her car collided with a deer, causing paralysis from her armpits down, Lynne Dorr struggles with the question of why this happened to her as she rehabilitates to hopefully be able to walk and play with her daughters again. Her daughters Kalissa, 7, and Kaelyn, 5, [...]

[Pioneer Press, Nov. 7, 2009] A 10-year experiment to determine whether one community can cut or even eliminate heart attacks has shown early progress, according to Allina Hospitals & Clinics. After one year, Allina’s Heart of New Ulm project has identified thousands of people with heart problems or metabolic conditions that put them at risk [...]

[Fox 9 News, Nov. 6, 2009] Inside the radiation room, Danny Hauser is a warrior preparing for one more battle. Minutes into his therapy session, he’s ready to claim victory. “Best part about it is I don’t have to come back in here,” Hauser said of his last treatment. Technicians at Abbott Northwestern Hospital targeted [...]

[KARE-TV, Nov. 7, 2009] MomsLikeMe.com cyber mom, Lynsee, gave birth to her first child live online early Saturday morning at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. KARE 11 has been following Lynsee throughout her pregnancy and streamed the labor and delivery live on the moms social networking site Twin Cities.MomsLikeMe.com. See the story and watch video [...]

[Star Tribune, Nov. 6, 2009] For parents of children who have received their first H1N1 shots, the frustrations may not be over. Clinics are warning they may not have enough vaccine on hand to give booster shots exactly on schedule — 28 days after the first dose. Federal officials have said children 9 and younger [...]

[KARE-TV, Nov. 5, 2009] Of the thousands of babies delivered at Abbott Northwestern hospital, none will be quite like the delivery for momslikeme soon to be mommy Lynsee. While just about everything during the hospital stay is expected to be relatively routine–from the birthing room to the beds for mom and baby–Lynsee’s delivery will have [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 5, 2009] Bob Harper, known as one of the trainers on the NBC show “The Biggest Loser,” is coming to New Ulm on Saturday to participate in the Heart of New Ulm’s Second Annual Heart Summit. The summit runs form 7-9 p.m. Saturday at the District 88 Administrative Center Auditorium, 15 [...]

[KEYC-TV, Nov. 4, 2009] Minnesota Senator Al Franken praised the Heart of New Ulm project while speaking to lawmakers on the Senate Floor about health care costs. New Ulm has teamed up with Allina Hospitals and Clinics and has made a commitment to reduce heart attacks over the next ten years. Senator Franken says initiatives [...]