Allina News

[Minnesota Public Radio, March 31, 2011]  The Obama administration has filled in some of the blanks in a key part of the health care overhaul. The administration proposed rules Thursday to define Accountable Care Organizations, which are meant to save hundreds of millions of dollars in the Medicare program while improving quality for patients. ACOs [...]

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 14, 2011] There is a lot of talk of love this Valentine’s Day, but for those suffering from a broken heart, it’s a serious matter. Broken heart syndrome is a rare condition in which emotional or physical stress causes people to feel like they are having a heart attack. Dr. Scott Sharkey [...]

[Star Tribune, Dec. 3, 2010] Minnesota hospitals and clinics are reporting episodic shortages of chemotherapy drugs. While drug shortages happen from time to time, the chemo shortfall is worrisome because it could disrupt strict treatment regimens that give cancer patients the best odds of survival. “It’s hard to just flip [cancer patients] onto something else,” [...]

[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 [...]

[WHYY Radio, August 27, 2010] The death of a standout Philadelphia high school basketball player has renewed the debate about how to detect heart trouble in competitive athletes. In an interview about this issue, a pediatric cardiologist cites Barry Maron, MD, Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Maron leads a national registry that tracks [...]

[Heart Matters, ReachMD XM Radio] Takotsubo, or stress-induced cardiomyopathy (also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’), was first recognized in Japan in the 1990s. Acute emotional or physical stress trigger the condition, which mimics the symptoms of a myocardial infarction (or MI). How can physicians differentiate between stress-induced cardiomyopathy and a more conventional MI, and how [...]

[WCCO Radio, March 25, 2010] Metro area hospitals and the Minnesota Nurses Association have recently opened contract and pension negotiations. Representatives for both groups were interviewed on the WCCO Radio Noon News Hour about those talks. Listen below. Metro hospitals and nurses start contract talks

[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 [...]

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 18, 2010] After two weeks in Vancouver caring for Olympic athletes in the Olympic Village clinic, Allina Medical Clinic-Northfield physician Scott Koehler, MD,  is home. He was interviewed on his experience at the Olympics on the WCCO Radio News Hour today. Listen to the interview below. Allina Medical Clinic’s Dr. Scott Koehler on the Olympics [...]

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 16, 2010] Can you die of a broken heart? Turns out you can according to a growing body of research. The latest study comes from Allina’s Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. MHI’s Dr. Scott Sharkey discussed that research on WCCO Radio’s Mondale & Jones program today. Listen below or at [...]

[WCCO Radio, Feb. 12, 2010] Former President Bill Clinton had two stents inserted into a coronary artery Thursday and was released from the hospital a day later. Cardiologist Kevin Graham, from Allina’s Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital visited with WCCO Radio’s Susie Jones and John Hines about the procedures performed on Clinton and [...]