Susan Arnold
11/12: Research Brief: New testing method helps protect workers — and their skin — from harmful chemicals (UMN News)
Jeff Bender
11/5: Northland farmers feel the mental health challenges of their calling (Duluth News Tribune – MN)
Jesse Berman
11/6: Violence is in the air (The Nation)
11/19: Mapping pollution in Minneapolis (Southwest Journal – Minneapolis, MN)
Lynn Blewett
11/27: Nonwhite, disadvantaged patients feel less respected, survey says (Medscape – login required)
Kathleen Call/SHADAC
11/5: Project identifies Minnesota’s uninsured to help them obtain coverage (UMN News)
11/5: Project identifies Minnesota’s uninsured to help them obtain health care coverage (Albert Lea Tribune – MN)
11/14: Smart work by the University of Minnesota to find the uninsured (Minneapolis Star Tribune – MN)
John Finnegan
11/3: Retiring librarian led University of Minnesota library into digital age (Minneapolis Star Tribune – MN)
11/7: Retiring librarian led U of Minn. library into digital age (Marshall Independent – MN)
Joseph Gaugler
11/20: Alzheimer’s disease topic of program in Crosslake (Brainerd Dispatch – MN)
11/25: How art can help people with Alzheimer’s enjoy the moment (PBS Newshour)
Ezra Golberstein
11/2: The bill for grief? For this woman, it was $21,634.55. (The Oregonian – Portland, OR)
11/11: Grief grew into a mental health crisis and a $21,634 hospital bill (New Hampshire Union Leader)
11/12: Suicide rates in Minnesota have increased in recent years, according to UMN report (Minnesota Daily)
Rachel Hardeman
11/21: Women of Color Far More Likely to Die in US from Pregnancy-Related Causes (The Globe Post)
11/22: You’re black and pregnant. What should your birth plan actually look like? (SELF)
Carrie Henning-Smith and Katy Kozhimannil
11/19: Health Affairs Events–Rural Health (Health Affairs Blog)
Carrie Henning-Smith, Ashley Hernandez (student)
11/24: Rural residents of color face disparities in receiving preventative care, UMN research shows (Minnesota Daily)
Katy B. Kozhimannil
11/5: Legislation seeks to decrease rural maternal deaths (The Daily Yonder)
Elizabeth Lukanen (SHADAC)
11/1: Most MN kids insured, but national trend raises concerns (Public News Service)
11/5: Most Minnesota kids insured (KTOE Radio – Mankato, MN)
Pamela Lutsey
11/25: Warfarin is bad to the bone, fracture data affirms (Medpage Today – login required)
11/25: Warfarin users may have higher risk for fracture (Healio)
11/26: Effects of anticoagulants Warfarin vs DOACA on Bone Health (MedicalResearch.com)
11/29: Fracture risk higher with Warfarin compared to DOACs: JAMA (Specialty Medical Dialogues)
Hannah Neprash
11/21: Want to study your classroom dynamics? There’s an app for that (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Jon Oliver
11/2: Tick research at Itasca State Park has worldwide implications (Duluth News Tribune – MN)
11/4: Tick research at Itasca State Park has worldwide implications (Detroit Lakes Tribune – MN)
Michael Osterholm
11/3: CWD risk to humans can’t be dismissed, health experts say (Brainerd Dispatch – MN)
11/3: Deer hunters generally taking chronic wasting disease risk in stride, UND survey shows (Brainerd Dispatch – MN)
11/3: CWD risk to humans can’t be dismissed, health experts say (Duluth News Tribune – MN)
11/3: Deer hunters generally taking chronic wasting disease risk in stride, UND survey shows (Grand Forks Herald – MN)
11/8: Baiting ban debate rages as deer firearm season nears (The Detroit News – MI)
11/13: New York identifies hospitals and nursing homes with deadly fungus (The New York Times)
11/15: There are better ways to measure progress (Green Biz)
11/17: Zombie Deer: An alternative to the failed policies spreading CWD and deer blood across the soil (The Cap Times – Madison, WI)
11/21: ‘Zombie’ disease ‘inevitable’ in Alabama and could kill state’s $1.8 billion deer-hunting industry (Montgomery Advertiser – AL)
Colin Planalp (SHADAC)
11/12: Suicide rates in Minnesota have increased in recent years, according to UMN report (Minnesota Daily)
11/17: Death toll from tainted cocaine rising across the country (NBC News)
11/19: Death toll from cocaine rising to alarming levels across the US (Medical Daily)
11/25: Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug (Kaiser Health News)
11/29: Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug (Chicago Tribune – IL)
11/29: Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug (Herald Mail Media – Hagerstown, IL)
11/29: Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug (Taunton Gazette – MA)
11/29: Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug (The Morning Call – Allentown, PA)
11/29 – Resurge la cocaina y se vuelve mas mortal en todo el pais (Miami News 24 – Miami, FL)
Marizen Ramirez
11/12: Suicide rates in Minnesota have increased in recent years, according to UMN report (Minnesota Daily)
Cavan Reilly
11/28: Cured but still contagious: How mixed messages on sexual transmission and breastfeeding may help Ebola spread (The New Humanitarian)
Mary Rooney (student, PhD ’19)
11/19: Research Brief: Estimating undiagnosed abnormal heart rhythm cases in older adults (UMN News)
Rural Health Research Center
11/25: An unhealthy pattern (MinnPost)
School of Public Health
11/10: What decades of (sometimes dodgy) dietary advice made us do (Bloomberg)
11/10: What decades of (sometimes dodgy) dietary advice made us do (Yahoo!)
Kelly Searle
11/5: This grassroots campaign for reproductive rights takes aim at anti-choice billboards (Next City)
Tetyana Shippee
11/1: Operators urged to assist in survey that will affect assisted living report card (McKnight’s Senior Living)
11/1: State creates online ‘report card’ to judge assisted living facilities (KEYC TV – Mankato, MN)
11/2: Assisted living report card coming this fall (Wahpeton Daily News – ND)
11/5: State developing report card for assisted living facilities (Minnesota Public Radio)
11/6: Researchers developing new Minnesota assisted living center report card (WDIO TV – Duluth, MN)
11/6: Minnesota developing report card for assisted living facilities (Business North)
11/6: U of M researchers developing new Minnesota assisted living center report card (KSTP TV – St. Paul, MN)
11/12: State releases nursing home report card (KNSI Radio – St. Cloud, MN)
11/19: Health Notes: Tobacco legislation, lung cancer and nursing home data (Duluth News Tribune – MN)
11/21: Quality of life essential for senior longevity (Forest Lake Times – MN)
Keelia Silvis (student)
11/22: Advocates form “Human Wall” to call for bike safety (KARE TV – Minneapolis, MN)
State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC)
11/4: The real cost of the opioid epidemic (School Newspapers Online)
11/12: Suicide rates in Minnesota have increased in recent years, according to UMN report (Minnesota Daily)
11/12: United Community Action Partnership awarded health outreach grant (West Central Tribune – Willmar, MN)
11/25: Statewide health exchange must have critical mass, financial stability, report finds (The Connecticut Mirror – Hartford, CT)
11/27: Connecticut facing financial obstacles prior to 2020 HIE launch (EHR Intelligence)
Irina Stepanov
11/1: How vaping causes serious lung disorders (U.S. News & World Report)
11/1: How vaping causes serious lung disorders (MSN)
11/10: Legislature aims to raise state nicotine purchasing age, ban flavored vapes (Minnesota Daily)
Leigh Turner
11/6: How unproven stem cell therapies are costing desperate patients (Texas Monthly)
11/18: U.S. stem cell clinic offering unapproved therapies brings direct-to-consumer marketing to Ottawa (Ottawa Citizen – CAN)
11/21: Investigation reveals widespread double dipping in NIH program to pay off school debt (Science)
Rob Walker
11/11: Testosterone therapy increases short-term venous thromboembolism risk in men (Healio)
11/12: Testosterone boosters raise men’s odds for clots (WebMD)
11/13: Men taking testosterone supplements have twice the risk of blood clots (United Press International)
Rachel Widome
11/12: RPS hears two options for later school start times (Rochester Post Bulletin – MN)
