Allina News

[Fox 9 News, March 25, 2012] Former vice president Dick Cheney is recovering Sunday after getting a new heart. While getting a transplant at 70 is unusual according to the doctor we spoke with, its not unheard of. So what is the process and what is the feeling waiting for a heart? Watch the story [...]

[WCCO-TV, March 2, 2012] Two nurses at Allina’s Abbott Northwestern became more than co-workers and friends when one of them volunteered a kidney to the other. WCCO reports on a special bond that has meant so much to both women.

[WCCO-TV, March 13, 2012] In a world where heart failure’s an epidemic, doctors say there’s now a game-changer in their fight. Starting Tuesday, doctors at a Twin Cities hospital started what they call a less-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery. WCCO-TV went inside the operation room at Abbott Northwestern Hospital to show the procedure that is [...]

[WCCO-TV, Feb. 29, 2012] It’s not quite the way he envisioned, but Jack Jablonski is headed to the Class AA Boys State Hockey Tournament next week. The 16-year-old was at Mariucci Arena Wednesday night as his Benilde-St. Margaret’s Red Knights beat Minnetonka 5-1 in the Section 6AA Championship game. WCCO met Jack as he was [...]

[Pioneer Press, Feb. 26, 2012] Almost two years ago, Roseville Area High School student Claire Frick went to the emergency room with unusual bruises. She was diagnosed with a rare and deadly childhood cancer: Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. To make matters worse, Claire’s mother, Jane Frick, was diagnosed with breast cancer in October. Both Claire and [...]

[KSTP-TV, Feb 16, 2012] Researchers at Dartmouth College found that some brands of baby formula and energy bars contain arsenic. KSTP-TV talked with Allina dietician Susan Lundy about the potential dangers. Watch the full story here.

[Star Tribune, Feb. 17, 2012] Construction is underway at the Mother Baby Center, a joint venture between Allina‘s Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics in south Minneapolis. The $50 million birthing center is wedged into tight quarters on the Abbott-Children’s campus. It will keep parents and their struggling babies in need of intensive [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, Feb. 14, 2012] A prominent Minneapolis cardiologist, Robert Hauser, MD, says St. Jude Medical isn’t doing enough to study how to treat patients whose implanted heart rhythm devices could fail due to faulty equipment. Hauser, with the Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, writes in the current issue of the New England [...]

[Star Tribune, Feb. 12, 2012] Dr. Greg Plotnikoff has spent more than a decade evangelizing about the health benefits of vitamin D to his medical colleagues across the globe. Now the Allina Health doctor at Abbott Northwestern Hospital‘s Penney George Institute for Health and Healing is turning to corporate America, hoping his message will have new [...]

[Star Tribune, Jan. 30, 2012] As physicians, nurses and technicians looked on, Dr. Benjamin Crandall and Dr. Josser Delgado gingerly inserted a catheter into an artery in the leg of a 55-year-old woman. To guide them, the neuroradiologists watched their progress on several screens showing multiple images of the blood vessels in her brain. It [...]

[WCCO-AM, Jan. 24, 2012] Tuesday is Jack Jablonski’s first full day at his new rehabilitation center. The 16-year-old Benilde-St. Margaret’s sophomore left the Hennepin County Medical Center Monday to begin rehab at Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Doctors couldn’t give us any specific details on what challenges Jablonski would be facing directly, [...]

[Heartwire.com, January 20, 2012] A meeting of the minds in Minneapolis today aims, in part, to figure out what to do with the thousands of people in the US—about 79 000, according to St Jude Medical—who remain fitted with the company’s “recalled” St Jude Medical Riata or Riata ST implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads. There remains a [...]