Planning a long-haul flight? Here’s how to outsmart jet lag
mikkelwilliam/Getty Images If you’re trying to squeeze some travel into the last few weeks of summer, you’ll want to get the most out of your vacation. And nothing ruins a trip to the Louvre or a scuba-diving excursion like your body telling you it’s time for bed NOW. So can you “hack” jet lag, so […]
COVID-19 continues to inch upward, increase in suicide
As Minnesotans make it through yet another period of poor air quality and another excessive heat warning, the focus of this edition of our biweekly health data roundup returns to COVID-19. And since we are rapidly approaching Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in September, we also look at troubling new data concerning the increase of death […]
Hidden in plain sight: U of M pressured to create space for sober students
Drug and alcohol use is often considered synonymous with the college experience, especially at large party schools like the University of Minnesota. Some are watching with concern now that recreational marijuana use is legal. As U of M students begin classes this fall, a faculty group is pushing to decrease stigma and increase visibility of substance […]
Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court
New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, but the Supreme Court will have the final say. The decision by three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned part of […]
Brainerd lifts boil water advisory
Updated: 6:05 p.m. The city of Brainerd announced Wednesday afternoon that it has lifted the boil water advisory that had been in effect for nearly a week. In an update at about 3:30 p.m., Brainerd Public Utilities said the latest round of water testing showed no coliform bacteria in the system. In an update later […]
Cannabis on the go: Red Lake Nation to offer mobile dispensary
Two weeks after becoming the first recreational cannabis dispensary in Minnesota to open its doors for business, the Red Lake Nation in northwestern Minnesota said it’s working on a mobile dispensary, which will resemble a food truck. Once completed, Red Lake leadership said the unit will allow them to expand their cannabis business into other […]
Surviving the silent killer of kidney disease
Kidney failure is sometimes called a silent killer, since symptoms aren’t noticeable until they’re life threatening. About one in seven people have chronic kidney disease, or about 15 percent of Americans, and many of them don’t know it. Treatments for kidney failure have improved — drugs, dialysis and kidney transplants are more successful than they […]
Duluth City Council votes to ban smoking marijuana in public parks
The Duluth City Council has voted to ban smoking marijuana in all city parks, including the popular Lakewalk pedestrian path along Lake Superior, Bayfront Festival Park and Spirit Mountain. The ordinance that passed Monday also bans vaping marijuana, and extends a ban on smoking tobacco to all city parks. It previously was only forbidden in […]
States that protect transgender health care now try to absorb demand
States that declared themselves refuges for transgender people have essentially issued an invitation: Get your gender-affirming health care here without fearing prosecution at home. Now that bans on such care for minors are taking effect around the country — Texas could be next, depending on the outcome of a court hearing this week — patients and their families are […]
Clarence Avant, a major power broker in music, sports and politics, has died at 92
Clarence Avant and his wife, Jacqueline, attending a Grammy Awards event in 2020. Avant died Sunday at age 92. Jacqueline Avant was killed in 2021. Alberto E. Rodriguez | Getty Images One of the great connectors in the music and entertainment industries has died. The executive and businessman Clarence Avant boosted the careers of generations […]