Allina News

[WCCO Radio, May 21, 2012] The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, a venerable organization that has been promoting push-ups, sit-ups and other traditional forms of sweating for decades, is now endorsing “active” video games, including “Wii Fit,” “Tiger Woods PGA Tour” and “Just Dance.” Sue Masemer, manager of the LiveWell Fitness Center at [...]

[Star Tribune, May 21, 2010] For more than two years, doctors knew they had to replace Amund Hendricks’ diseased aortic valve. Trouble was, they couldn’t. Hendricks, 84, was not considered healthy enough this time to surgically replace the valve. All Hendricks’ physician, Dr. Wesley Pedersen, at Allina Health‘s Minneapolis Heart Institute, could do was monitor [...]

[Pioneer Press, May 13, 2012] Emily Bothun, a professional photographer from Dawson, Minn., was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2010. She was 23. Krista Mondahl, a college student from Waseca, was diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2011. She was 24. The women — who live three hours apart — connected through the buddy [...]

[HealthDay, May 11, 2012] A new treatment that involves spinning bone marrow stem cells to enhance their healing potential may help people with advanced heart failure feel and function better, a small study suggests. Researchers developed the treatment by culturing a patient’s own bone marrow for 12 days. This process helped increase the amount of [...]

[Star Tribune, May 4, 2012] Dr. Nancy Hutchison knows that there’s life after cancer. But many survivors continue to struggle with the side effects of treatment after it’s over: swelling, limited motion, severe weakness and fatigue. Now, Sister Kenny is trying to change that with a new program in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In April, [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, April 26, 2012] University of Minnesota Gophers football player Gary Tinsley died of an enlarged heart April 6, according to a Hennepin County Medical Examiner report released Wednesday. Minneapolis Heart Institute researcher Dr. David Feldman told Tom Crann of All Things Considered that the condition could be caused by factors including genetic [...]

[Star Tribune, April 14, 2012] Allina Hospitals and Clinics has broken ground on a new emergency department at WestHealth in Plymouth. They’re building an 18,000 square-foot building to offer a 24-hour, full-service emergency department. It will be staffed by physicians from Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Allina officials said the expansion allows the hospital to treat patients [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, April 12, 2012] Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis is one of 22 hospitals across the country being asked to get rid of its McDonald’s restaurant. Corporate Accountability International, a corporate watchdog group that has gone after companies such as Coca-Cola, said hospitals shouldn’t be letting McDonald’s market unhealthy foods in health care [...]

[KSTP-TV, April 12, 2012] It’s art that does more than please the eye: it heals. Thursday is opening night for the 49th Annual International Art Show for Artists with Disabilities, put on by the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute in Minneapolis. It features work by artists from across the globe with a wide range of disabilities.  Everything [...]

[KARE 11, April 10, 2012] Are you heart healthy? Would you know what symptoms need to be checked to make sure? You can find out at the upcoming ’From Table to Ticker‘ event at the Galleria. Allina’s Dr. Elizabeth Grey of the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital previewed the event on KARE 11 Today, [...]

[CBS, April 1, 2012] Statistically, fewer than one percent of all medical devices fail their patients – far fewer, in fact. Small comfort if one of those very rare failures strikes you or me or someone you love. CBS Sunday Morning examined one of those cases and how it lead Allina cardiologist Robert Hauser at [...]

[Bloomberg BusinessWeek, March 29, 2012] Defective wires made by St. Jude Medical Inc. to connect heart-shocking defibrillators caused at least 20 patient deaths due to short circuiting, according to an article published in a leading cardiology journal. Dr. Robert Hauser of the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital analyzed a database of reported device [...]