Allina News

[Pioneer Press, Feb. 14, 2011] There are a lot of broken hearts in Minnesota. And doctors say the intriguing health problem usually doesn’t stem from a failed romance. “It can be from grief — from the death of a loved one. Or it can be from a tornado, a barn burning down or public speaking,” [...]

[Pioneer Press, Jan. 4, 2011] Implanted devices that shock failing hearts back into rhythm have saved tens of thousands of lives, doctors say, while also supporting a vibrant cluster of large medical-device companies in the Twin Cities. But a new study reports that about 20 percent of more than 110,000 patients who received these costly [...]

[Pioneer Press, Dec. 19,2010] When Bob Sherman puts two fingers to his wrist, the pulse he feels isn’t normal. Rather than sensing the singular beat he’s known for most of his life, Sherman now detects a longer surge of blood that occasionally feels like a double beat. He’s one of a growing number heart failure [...]

[Pioneer Press, Dec. 14, 2010] A Minneapolis-based foundation is donating $10 million to expand neuroscience programs at United Hospital in St. Paul. The United Hospital Foundation said Monday that it initially will receive $3 million from the Bentson Foundation to endow a chair position for a doctor at the Nasseff Neuroscience Center. Over the next [...]

[St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 24, 2010] Bring together five kidney donors and their organ recipients for the first time, and you can expect to hear plenty of people giving thanks. But the banter can be pretty good, too. As Matthew Kleve, 36, of South St. Paul talked Tuesday about how much more energy he [...]

[Pioneer  Press, Nov. 18, 2010] St. Paul Heart Clinic, one of the most prominent physician groups in the east metro, is dissolving by Jan. 1. Based in a building adjacent to United Hospital in downtown St. Paul, the heart clinic said its 31 doctors will become employees either of the Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals & Clinics [...]

[Pioneer Press, Sept. 21, 2010] In August, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that one in every five teens has slight hearing loss. But on Monday, University of Minnesota researchers said those findings did not consider that conventional hearing tests often falsely identify children as having noise-induced hearing loss. Whether [...]

[Pioneer Press, July 23, 2010] Hospitals in the Twin Cities and Fargo, N.D., reported Thursday an unusual series of five kidney transplant surgeries that shows just how far doctors are going to stretch the limited supply of organ donors. The so-called “kidney chain” got started this month with an altruistic donor in Minneapolis who donated [...]

[St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 30, 2010] “The great thing (with social media) is that we have a measurable way to gauge public opinion, support and feedback on negotiations,” said John Nemo, an MNA spokesman. “And we can also share that input with our members instantaneously.” Representing the majority of metro hospitals, the Allina, Children’s, [...]

[St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 14, 2010] Five patients — with three new knees and two new hips among them — were rolled into a dimmed, windowless room at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis for group acupuncture. None had received the treatment before, but Cynthia Miller, a clinical acupuncturist, quickly had thin needles protruding from [...]

[Pioneer Press, March 30, 2010] Heart doctors are cheering news that Fridley-based Medtronic is moving closer to marketing the first MRI-compatible pacemaker in the U.S. “I think it’s an advantage for Medtronic,” said Dr. Robert Hauser, a cardiologist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. “(But) there are multiple factors that physicians must weigh in selecting [...]

[Pioneer Press, Feb. 9, 2010] Four days after spending more than eight hours trapped up to his chest inside a Farmington grain silo, Mark Malecha returned to work Monday. Authorities are investigating reports he was not wearing a safety harness when, while attempting to unclog clumped or frozen grain, he fell into the bin Thursday. [...]