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Celiac diagnoses rose during 2000s: study

Celiac diagnoses rose during 2000s: study

March 29, 2013 3:41 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of Americans diagnosed with celiac disease continued to rise over the past decade but leveled off in 2004, according to a new study.Researchers ... Read more
Mayo Clinic adds Twin Cities-based Shriners Hospitals to its network

Mayo Clinic adds Twin Cities-based Shriners Hospitals to its network

March 28, 2013 3:30 am by | 0 Comments

The Shriners Hospitals for Children-Twin Cities is now a part of the Mayo Clinic Care Network -- a partnership that doesn't involve any changes in ownership but gives Shriners easy ... Read more
BioDrain pulls in small round of capital as it pushes into medical waste management market

BioDrain pulls in small round of capital as it pushes into medical waste management market

March 26, 2013 1:32 pm by | 0 Comments

Publicly traded BioDrain Medical (OTC:BIOR) has been collecting some small private investments as it works to build buzz for its automated surgical fluid disposal device in U.S. hospitals and surgery ... Read more
From Florida to Minnesota to Colorado: Views of the Affordable Care Act at age 3

From Florida to Minnesota to Colorado: Views of the Affordable Care Act at age 3

March 24, 2013 12:57 pm by | 0 Comments

As the health law marks its third anniversary, much of the action surrounding its implementation has shifted to the states.

Hot topics include creation of health exchanges, the on-line marketplaces ... Read more

Minnesota health insurance exchange now official

Minnesota health insurance exchange now official

March 21, 2013 3:59 am by | 0 Comments

Gov. Mark Dayton signed legislation Wednesday, March 20, creating a health insurance exchange in Minnesota, a move supporters call the state's most sweeping coverage reform in 50 years.About 1.3 million ... Read more
University disputes claim of ‘rubber-stamping’ patients into drug research

University disputes claim of ‘rubber-stamping’ patients into drug research

March 21, 2013 3:52 am by | 0 Comments

University of Minnesota officials have investigated a concern raised by a bioethics professor -- that U psychiatrists might have "rubber-stamped" vulnerable schizophrenic patients into drug studies -- and concluded it ... Read more
St. Jude Medical’s device to prevent stroke misses study goal

St. Jude Medical’s device to prevent stroke misses study goal

March 20, 2013 5:04 pm by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - A clinical trial evaluating St. Jude Medical Inc's implantable device used to prevent stroke in patients who have a common congenital heart defect failed to achieve its main ... Read more
Mayo doctors: Too few kids are getting the HPV vaccine

Mayo doctors: Too few kids are getting the HPV vaccine

March 18, 2013 4:21 am by | 0 Comments

More adolescents are getting vaccinated for human papillomavirus, the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, but use of the HPV vaccine continues to lag behind expectations, and doctors are ... Read more
State health department: Minnesota has enough radiation treatment centers

State health department: Minnesota has enough radiation treatment centers

March 16, 2013 6:17 am by | 0 Comments

Minnesota has enough radiation treatment facilities for patients, even though cancer cases are expected to grow by almost 24 percent in the next decade, according to a report released Friday ... Read more
Mayo Clinic launches $6B project to maintain preeminence as global medical destination

Mayo Clinic launches $6B project to maintain preeminence as global medical destination

January 30, 2013 6:26 pm by | 1 Comments

Mayo Clinic has pulled back on its plans to expand into the Twin Cities, and appears to be doubling down on its commitment to its headquarters 80 miles south in ... Read more
Advice for medical technology firms looking to raise capital: Go East

Advice for medical technology firms looking to raise capital: Go East

January 30, 2013 3:08 pm by | 1 Comments

Last month I interviewed the CEO of Minnesota medical device start-up Mardil Medical who did not quit when he couldn’t raise capital in the U.S.Jim Buck thought well, if U.S. ... Read more
Is South Dakota’s Sanford Health looking to expand footprint into Twin Cities?

Is South Dakota’s Sanford Health looking to expand footprint into Twin Cities?

January 29, 2013 4:17 pm by | 2 Comments

When you hear something often enough from unrelated sources, you tend to believe it.And that is the situation I find myself in with North Dakota healthcare provider Sanford Health’s supposed ... Read more
FDA clears Conventus Orthopaedics’ less invasive treatment to repair wrist fractures

FDA clears Conventus Orthopaedics’ less invasive treatment to repair wrist fractures

January 28, 2013 11:55 am by | 0 Comments

Minnesota orthopaedics device startup Conventus Orthopaedics announced Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its minimally invasive treatment for repairing wrist fractures.The Conventus Distal Radius Surgical System ... Read more
Uroplasty executives unfazed over competition from Botox to treat overactive bladder

Uroplasty executives unfazed over competition from Botox to treat overactive bladder

January 28, 2013 7:35 am by | 0 Comments

Botox is the miracle wrinkle-remover but if many were expecting that its approval to treat overactive bladder would cause wrinkles on the foreheads of senior management at Minnesota incontinence treatment ... Read more
Two startups try to break 10+ trend of search engine as starting point for health info

Two startups try to break 10+ trend of search engine as starting point for health info

January 25, 2013 10:02 am by | 0 Comments

The more things change, the more they remain the same.The old adage pretty much sums up a recent report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, which ... Read more