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Health

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COVID-19, firearm deaths and abortion: Minnesota health data roundup

This week’s roundup shows that COVID continues to wane in Minnesota, with low levels detected in wastewater plants throughout the state. In light of recent news we also take a look at firearm death rate and a new report showing a big increase in nonresident abortions in Minnesota last year.
by Craig Helmstetter

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The CDC is helping states address gun injuries after years of political roadblocks

The CDC is helping states address gun injuries after years of political roadblocks

A grant program gives states a path around a 1996 federal rule that prohibits the CDC from advocating gun control — a rule critics say has had a chilling effect on studying who has been shot and how.
by Scott Neuman

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Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Brooke Cunningham is on a mission to tackle racial health disparities 

Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Brooke Cunningham is on a mission to tackle racial health disparities 

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Brooke Cunningham. She’s a sociologist, a primary care doctor and has big ideas for improving equity in health care.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Hennepin Healthcare makes its case for more equity, inclusion training

Hennepin Healthcare makes its case for more equity, inclusion training

The Minneapolis hospital now requires doctors and other health professionals to undergo equity and inclusion training. The program is atypical in the health field, but one that hospital leaders say is crucial in their mission to serve the entire city. Here’s how it works.
by Michelle Wiley

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U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk

U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk

The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.
by Pien Huang and Jane Greenhalgh

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In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.
by Selena Simmons-Duffin

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