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[WCCO-TV, May 2, 2011] WCCO-TV anchorman Frank Vascellaro had an arthritic hip resurfaced on April 1 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn. Back at work now, he tells his story of his surgery by orthopedist Scott Anseth, MD, and recovery at Abbott Northwestern’s Joint Replacement Center. Watch the story below.

[WCCO-TV, March 15, 2011] Four identical twins from Buffalo, Minnesota are now starring in a documentary-style reality show about their life.  They are one of 63 sets of identical quadruplets in the world. Clearly rare. But what are the odds of having a multiple birth? “Naturally quadruplet births occur only in 1 per 500,000 births, [...]

[WCCO-TV, March 10, 2011] A Minnesota man picked the worst place to crash his bike but the absolute best time to do it. Gary Werning was riding in a prestigious cycling race on top of a Colorado mountain, but quickly the race on the course turned into a race to save Werning’s life. Werning was [...]

[WCCO-TV, March 2, 2011] For two well-known Minneapolis Star Tribune photographers, a picture is worth so much more than a thousand words. Liz Flores and David Joles, of Minneapolis, say it’s the only way to measure their love for their daughter during a time they found themselves in their toughest assignment yet. Their daughter, Gracie Joles, [...]

[WCCO-TV, Feb. 9, 2011] As Valentine’s Day approaches it may be good to have your heart all aflutter. But, for up to three million Americans, it is a daily occurrence and that is not a good thing. They have the most common heart rhythm problem: atrial fibrillation. Dr. William Katsiyiannis, a cardiologist at the Minneapolis [...]

[WCCO-TV, Jan. 13, 2011] The U.S. Department of Agriculture is raising nutrition standards for the first time in more than a decade in hopes of getting kids to eat healthier, cutting down on the amount of starchy vegetables, things like potatoes, corn and peas, and counting calories, too. “It’s age appropriate so when they’re smaller, [...]

[WCCO-TV, Dec. 6, 2010] The number of heart attacks in New Ulm, Minnesota has dropped by 24 percent since the Heart of New Ulm Project started last year. However, project coordinators don’t take all the credit for that decrease. Businesses like J&R Schugel Trucking are teaming up with the Heart of New Ulm, a program [...]

[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 [...]

[AP and WCCO-TV, November 15, 2010] Millions of people who are struggling with the tough-to-use blood thinner warfarin, sold as Coumadin and other brands, may soon have another alternative. An experimental Johnson & Johnson drug prevented strokes in people with a common heart rhythm problem as well as warfarin did and without an increase in [...]

[WCCO-TV, Oct. 28, 2010] This year, the Minnesota Emergency Medical Services gave their Pioneer Award to WCCO-TV news anchor Don Shelby. You might wonder why the people who staff and run ambulances would honor a journalist. Well, it’s because of story Shelby did back in 1983. Watch the story below which includes an interview with [...]

[WCCO-TV, Oct. 14, 2010] One-and-a-half years into a ten year project and the Heart of New Ulm is already showing promising results reducing heart disease that will be showcased at the annual Heart of New Ulm Summit this weekend. The project’s director, Jeff Van Wormer, talked about the Heart of New Ulm with WCCO’s Mike [...]

[WCCO-TV, Oct. 13, 2010] Anna Linck’s life was renewed Easter morning when the 24-year-old graduate student she was given a donor heart. Just in time says her cardiologist. “At the time her (donor) heart became available, she probably had less than 48 hours to live,” said David Feldman MD, with the Minneapolis Heart Institute. During [...]