Dan Kraker
Meet Dan Kraker Dan Kraker is an MPR News reporter based in Duluth where he covers the people, economy and environment of northeast Minnesota. Before joining MPR News, Dan worked at KNAU Arizona Public Radio for 11 years, first as a reporter covering northern Arizona’s Native nations and then as news director. He also contributes […]
Nicole Ki
Meet Nicole Ki Nicole Ki is a reporter with Reverb, a MPR News initiative and reporting team focused on serving younger (and young-at-heart) Minnesotans. Her work includes in-depth reporting and producing TikTok videos on a wide range of Minnesotan topics. Before joining MPR News, Nicole was a human rights reporter for the Argus Leader in […]
Estelle Timar-Wilcox
Meet Estelle Timar-Wilcox Estelle Timar-Wilcox is a morning general assignment reporter for MPR News. She reports on a little of everything in and around the Twin Cities, looking for stories that teach people something new about their community. Estelle joined MPR as an intern in the summer of 2022 and took on a full-time reporter […]
Jessica Bari
Meet Jessica Bari Jessica Bari is a senior producer for Call to Mind from American Public Media, an initiative that fosters new conversations about mental health. She leads production for the series’ nationally distributed broadcast hours. Jessica is an award-winning journalist with a specialty in longform storytelling for radio, television, live summits and events. Her […]
Erica Zurek
Meet Erica Zurek Erica Zurek is a senior health reporter at MPR News. Erica began her multimedia journalism career in Montana where she reported on health, policy, the environment and other subjects. Her reporting has appeared on WBUR’s “Here & Now,” Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and in KFF Health News, NPR, CBS News, […]
Nina Moini
Meet Nina Moini Nina Moini is an award-winning journalist and host of MPR’s midday show, Minnesota Now. Nina has been reporting across the state of Minnesota in radio and television news since 2013. Since joining MPR News in 2017, Nina has covered a wide range of topics including public safety and immigration for radio and […]
Melissa Olson
Meet Melissa Olson Melissa Olson is a reporter for the MPR News Native News Initiative and a contributor to the North Star Journey series. She is also an essayist and community archivist. Her long-form audio documentary “Stolen Childhoods” was produced in collaboration with KFAI community radio and aired statewide on Minnesota Public Radio in […]
Linezolid ‘Not Recommended’ to Treat Early Syphilis
Linezolid failed to meet noninferiority criteria when compared with standard benzathine penicillin G (BPG) in the treatment of early syphilis, according to findings of the randomized, controlled Trep-AB Study of cisgender men. Only 70% of trial participants with early syphilis who were treated with linezolid were cured, compared with 100% of participants treated with penicillin, […]
Opinion | Why the ‘Stages of Grief’ Need to Be Retired
Morse is a behavioral and developmental psychologist and thanatologist. I never had the honor to meet the famed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD (1926-2004), yet I have spent much of my career as a thanatologist getting to know her through her work on the five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (On Death and Dying, 1969). […]
Pre-COPD Current and Former Smokers Not in the Clear for Airway Disease
Whether they had respiratory symptoms or not, former and current smokers who didn’t meet criteria for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had similar declines in lung function and progression to COPD in subsequent years, the SPIROMICS II study found. Participants with symptomatic tobacco exposure and preserved spirometry (TEPS) experienced no significant difference in annual declines […]