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 […]
HIV Testing and Outreach Falter as Trump Funding Cuts Sweep the South
JACKSON, Miss. — Storm clouds hung low above a community center in Jackson, where pastor Andre Devine invited people inside for lunch. Hoagies with smoked turkey and ham drew the crowd, but several people lingered for free preventive healthcare: tests for HIV and other diseases, flu shots, and blood pressure and glucose monitoring. Between greetings, […]
Richard Simmons Shares Skin Cancer Diagnosis After Clarifying Alarming Post About ‘Dying’
LOADINGERROR LOADING Days after upsetting fans with a cryptic post where he referenced “dying,” Richard Simmons is opening up about being diagnosed with skin cancer. The fitness guru sounded upbeat as he wrote about how a small skin issue led to a major health scare in a pair of lengthy Facebook posts on Tuesday. Advertisement […]
Cameroon Starts World’s First Malaria Vaccine Program For Children
Health officials prepare to vaccinate residents of the Malawi village of Migowi, on Dec. 10, 2019, where young children become test subjects for the world’s first vaccine against malaria. AP Photo/Jerome Delay Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. The […]
The 1 Thing To Avoid If You Don’t Want Narcissistic Kids
skynesher via Getty Images There’s a Bluey episode you might’ve seen where Muffin (a young dog) is told she’s ‘special’ by her dad. When Bluey and Bingo want to play libraries, Muffin thinks she doesn’t have to follow the rules and ends up ruining the game for everybody else. When Muffin’s dad finds out about […]
Spell Check-Up: Ready to Play a Spelling Game?
Welcome to Spell Check-Up, a game where your medical spelling skills are put to the test. We give you the definition of a healthcare-related word and several spelling options. Your task is to select the correct spelling of the word that matches the given definition. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Fasting can help you lose weight, but you might gain it back quickly
Water fasts — where people consume nothing but water for several days — might help you lose weight, but it’s unclear how long you’ll keep it off, according to research from the University of Illinois Chicago. And the other metabolic benefits of water fasts, such as lower blood pressure and improved cholesterol, seem to disappear […]
Opinion | ‘Agree With Dog’ and Other Obscure Patient Chart Notes
I keep hoping that we are going to get to a place where we can use the medical record for what it really should be. As we evolved away from paper charts, and smeary, inky, illegible doctors’ handwriting, the promise of an electronic medical record that really helps us take care of patients emerged — […]
I Thought I Had A Headache. It Turned Out To Be Herpes (HSV-1) — In My Brain.
The author during her stay at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was treated for encephalitis in 2015. “I do not remember this day,” she writes. Courtesy of Brigid Ward On Oct. 28, 2015, I left my high school teaching job early because I thought I had the flu. I had been […]
Small-scale octopus fisheries can provide sustainable source of vital nutrients for tropical coastal communities
Undernourished coastal communities in the tropics — where children’s growth can be stunted by a lack of micronutrients — can get the vitamins and minerals they need from sustainable small-scale octopus fisheries, say researchers. Research led by Cambridge scientists, and published today in Nature Food, shows that tropical small-scale octopus fisheries offer a sustainable source […]