Burnsville woman's sinus surgery went great — until she got the $32,449 medical bill
Billing dispute provides a window on tensions between insurers and health care providers over coverage denials.
Minnesota plan to close state addiction treatment facilities faces pushback
DHS wants to divert resources to address mental health crisis. Some fear Minnesota is "robbing Peter to pay Paul" and women with addiction will suffer.
St. Olaf talks death in a cafe setting
College officials are embracing a student-led effort to ponder one of life's biggest mysteries.
Local
Hopkins parents charged in 9-year-old daughter's deadly asthma attack
Charges say they ignored her health concerns and the advice of family and friends to take her to the hospital.
Business
Kentucky governor announces lottery to award initial round of medical cannabis business licenses
Kentucky will use a lottery system to award an initial round of licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state's startup medical cannabis program, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday.
Nation
Legislation allowing doctor-assisted suicide narrowly clears Delaware House, heads to state Senate
A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware narrowly cleared the Democrat-led House on Thursday and now goes to the state Senate for consideration.
Nation
As syphilis cases among US newborns soar, doctors group advises more screening during pregnancy
With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group now recommends that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection.
Agriculture
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Iowa environmental groups ask EPA to step in and protect drinking water
Inspired by a successful campaign in Minnesota, the groups want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to intervene to prevent agricultural runoff from polluting water in northeast Iowa.
Nation
A lab chief's sentencing for meningitis deaths is postponed, extending grief of victims' families
A Michigan judge on Thursday suddenly postponed the sentencing of a man at the center of a fatal meningitis outbreak that hit multiple states, dismaying people who were poised to speak about their grief 12 years after the tragedy.
Nation
Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing
and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired to help clean up environmental devastation from the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Nation
Two shootings, two different responses — Maine restricts guns while Iowa arms teachers
Six months after a deadly mass shooting by an Army reservist, Maine lawmakers this week passed a wide-ranging package of new gun restrictions.
World
UK's Prince William returns to public duties for first time since Kate's cancer diagnosis
Prince William returned to public duties on Thursday for the first time since his wife's cancer diagnosis, bolstering the royal family's ranks as health problems continue to sideline the princess and King Charles III.
Nation
UN approves an updated cholera vaccine that could help fight a surge in cases
The World Health Organization has approved a version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile and left poorer countries scrambling to contain epidemics.
Nation
Idaho's ban on youth gender-affirming care has families desperately scrambling for solutions
Forced to hide her true self, Joe Horras' transgender daughter struggled with depression and anxiety until three years ago, when she began to take medication to block the onset of puberty. The gender-affirming treatment helped the now-16-year-old find happiness again, her father said.
Nation
25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting
Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run.
Nation
Democrats clear path to bring proposed repeal of Arizona's near-total abortion ban to a vote
Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state's near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state's highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute.
Nation
Skeletal remains found at home in Illinois identified as those of woman missing since 2008
Skeletal remains found at a house in Springfield have been identified as those of a woman who vanished in 2008, authorities said.
Local
Mahnomen hospital shutters inpatient beds to survive, a first in Minnesota
The northwest Minnesota hospital is converting to a rural emergency center that stabilizes patients but offers no inpatient beds for prolonged care.
Nation
Lab chief faces sentencing in Michigan 12 years after fatal US meningitis outbreak
Days after a routine injection to ease back pain, Donna Kruzich and a friend drove across the border to Canada in 2012 to see end-of-summer theater in Stratford, Ontario.
Sports
Olympic champion Suni Lee back in form after debilitating kidney ailment
Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Suni Lee revealed that at the height of dealing with a kidney disease last year, she questioned whether a return to top form was even possible.
Nation
Things to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids' rights
Three court rulings across the U.S. this week delved into laws restricting the rights of transgender kids, including the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has gotten involved in a ban on gender-affirming care.
Sports
Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case hearing in June ahead of Paris Olympics
Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics open.
World
UN report points to yawning gap of inequality in sexual and reproductive health worldwide
A new study says an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America, the U.N. population fund reported Wednesday as it decried widening inequality in sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
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