Allina News

[KSTP-TV, Feb. 1, 2012] A manufacturing mix-up by Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug maker, led to some packets being distributed with the pills out of order. That means a patient could have unknowingly skipped a dose and raised her risk of an accidental pregnancy. Allina Medical Clinic – Woodlake (Richfield) OB/GYN Dr. Meredith Kasbohm [...]

[KSTP-TV, Jan. 26, 2012] We all know beating cancer can be a long and difficult challenge, and now one Minnesota hospital has a new way to recognize the fight. Cambridge Medical Center in Isanti County unveiled its bell of hope. It’s rung in celebration after a person completes chemotherapy treatment. The bell was paid for [...]

[KMSP Fox 9, Jan, 3, 2012] Millions of Americans who use ADHD medications to help control their lives are concerned over a drug shortage now that pharmacies are running out. Pharmacists thought the shortage would be over last summer. Instead, they say it’s just getting worse, and it’s affecting everyone. Ann Byre, the director of [...]

[KMSP Fox 9, Jan. 2, 2011] A Twin Cities high school hockey player suffered a neck injury in a game that has severely damaged his spinal cord and left him partially paralyzed. Fox 9 News talked with Dr. Murali Krishnamurthy at Allina’s Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute about how such an injury happens and what modern [...]

[KMSP Fox 9, Dec. 30, 2011] Vikings fans are hoping that star running back Adrian will make a full and speedy recovery from knee surgery to repair damage from a season-ending injury on Dec. 24. Orthopedic surgeon Pearce McCarty, with Allina’s Sports and Orthopaedic Specialists, discussed the Peterson surgery on Fox 9 News and his [...]

[KSTP-TV, Dec. 10, 2011] Across the metro and greater Minnesota, thousands of kids from families in need received free bikes Saturday. The nonprofit Free Bikes 4 Kidz, with the help of hundreds of Allina Hospitals & Clinics employee volunteers, collected donated used bikes in October, refurbished them in November and delivered them Saturday. One of [...]

[KARE-TV, November 25, 2011] Toni Almstedt, 64, of Two Harbors, Minn., is one of the first patients at Abbott Northwestern Hospital to be treated with a new device designed specifically for the treatment of giant brain aneurysms.  Abbott Northwestern is the first Twin Cities hospital and one of only two centers in Minnesota where physicians perform this procedure. Watch her story on [...]

[KARE-TV, Nov. 22, 2011] For 39 years Max Day has been a pastor and for 25 years he has gone deer hunting in northern Minnesota with his sons on opening weekend. This year, on the day of the hunt everything changed when Pastor Day’s deer stand gave way. “I was thinking on the way down, this is not [...]

[KMSP Fox 9, Nov.11, 2011] New recommendations supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics say all children between the ages of nine and 11 should be screened for high cholesterol, and again in their late teens. Allina Medical Clinic – Woodlake pediatrician Dr. Anne Valaas-Turner says the new recommendation reflect growing evidence that conditions that [...]

[WCCO-TV, November 9, 2011] Breast cancer is a devastating diagnosis that comes with a long list of big decisions. Some women often opt for reconstruction surgery. But some blame one popular procedure for making matters even worse. A TRAM Flap procedure is similar to a tummy tuck, transferring tissue from the abdomen to the chest [...]

[KSTP-TV, November 4, 2011] A healthy dose of Minnesota Nice is on its way to a place that needs all the compassion it can get. Fifteen local healthcare workers are headed to Haiti. Many of them have been there before on their own time and with their own money, but now, they’re getting some help.

[WCCO-TV, November 5, 2011] One in every 100,000 breast cancer patients is a man. It’s very rare, but it’s something many men don’t talk about or even ask their doctors about. Bill Riegert is just glad his wife’s persistence made him ask his doctor about it.  Surgeon John O’Leary, MD, of Piper Breast Center at [...]