Allina News

[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 [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, November 15, 2010] Most first-time heart attack patients are not taking well-known medications that could have prevented their heart attacks, a study by a group of Twin Cities cardiologists found. The study, presented Monday during an American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, may mark the first time research has looked at the [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, March 16, 2010] Heart device manufacturer Boston Scientific’s financial struggles have been exascerbated by news this week that shipments of its implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, have been halted for failure to get approval of manufacturing changes on the devices. As word of Boston Scientific’s news circulated, it did not appear to [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio Midday, Feb. 2, 2010] Peter Melchert, MD, a pediatric internist with Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Children’s Hospital and medical director of Children’s Surgery International is in Haiti with the volunteer group providing care for Haitians injured in the earthquake three weeks. He was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midday program. Listen to [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio-Midmorning , Jan. 15, 2010] Dr. Jay Traverse, a cardiologist at Allina’s Minneapolis Heart Institute, and two other specialists on stem cells and heart research, talk about new ways to repair hearts and prevent future heart problems in this episode of Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning program. Listen to Dr. Traverse below or the [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio-Midday, Jan. 18, 2010] On Minnesota Public Radio’s Midday program, U.S. Senator Al Franken fielded questions on a wide range topics including several on health care. During the program he cited Allina’s Heart of New Ulm program as an example of preventive health care that will improve health and save money. Listen to [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio - Midmorning, Dec. 29, 2009] H1N1 and the effort to reform health care dominated the news this year, but two local doctors say the year in medicine was marked less by major breakthroughs than by the debunking of long-held medical beliefs. Craig Bowron, MD, a hospitalist at Allina’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital and [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio - Midmorning, Dec. 24, 2009] The light is gradually returning, but not fast enough for those who suffer from seasonal affective disorder. Midmorning talks to Allina Medical Clinic psychologist Dr. Alan Steed about what separates SAD from other forms of depression, and what researchers are learning about the most effective treatments. See [...]

[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 [...]

[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. [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, Oct. 28, 2009] It appears a lot of people with the H1N1 flu do not experience a fever, and the absence of a fever could mean they are not taking enough precautions to prevent transmitting the virus to others. In Minnesota, the no-fever issue has been a hot topic among some health [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, Oct. 28, 2009] It appears a lot of people with the H1N1 flu do not experience a fever, and the absence of a fever could mean they are not taking enough precautions to prevent transmitting the virus to others. Fever and flu go hand-in-hand – at least that’s the case most of [...]