Health

By declaring a public health emergency, tribal leaders hope help from outside agencies will control the growing heroin and opiate crisis.

Compensation in recent years for the CEOs of the largest U.S. health care companies has far outstripped the wage growth of nearly all Americans, an investigation by the news site Axios has found.

Five Republican governors from the central U.S. offered their ideas on health care reform, the opioid crisis, education and the security of our election systems.

Senate Republicans are lowering their sights and trying to unite behind a so-called "skinny repeal" that would merely undo just a few of the most unpopular elements of Barack Obama's law.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA are investigating and believe the cause to be salmonella contamination from Maradol papayas. There has been one reported case in Minnesota.

High school athletes who tended to focus on one sport were 50 percent more likely to get hurt than those who hadn't specialized. Injuries included ankle sprains, knee tendonitis, and stress fractures.

Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico joined the program to discuss the latest vote to debate the Affordable Care Act, why the repeal vote failed and which Senators to watch going forward.

The Senate is debating the future of U.S. health care.

Minnesota's public drinking water supplies are in good shape, according the state's Department of Health, but a new report also warns agencies should remain prepared for that to change.

University of Minnesota research shows medical debt declined and financial satisfaction grew more in states that expanded Medicaid.

As the country starts to get back into its most popular professional team sport, this serves as a reminder of how dangerous football can be.

Senators planned to vote Wednesday on a Republican amendment repealing much of President Barack Obama's law and giving Congress two years to concoct a replacement.

Medicaid pays for nearly half the births in the U.S., and centers that counsel women against abortion often help pregnant women enroll in Medicaid so they don't have to worry about health care costs.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., scheduled the initial health care vote for Tuesday. Democrats uniformly oppose the effort to tear down Obama's signature legislative achievement.

Only designated tobacco stores would be allowed to sell menthol tobacco under the proposal, taking the products out of local convenience stores and gas stations.

Health care costs are rising: prescriptions, deductibles, premiums, co-pays. But how much are we willing and able to pay for the health care we use?

The parents of critically ill baby Charlie Gard dropped their legal bid Monday to send him to the United States for an experimental treatment after new medical tests showed that the window of opportunity to help him had closed.

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The Senate will move forward with a key vote this week on a Republican health care bill but it's not yet known whether the legislation will seek to replace the Affordable Care Act or simply repeal it