The number of adults who identify as being on the autism spectrum is growing, along with awareness. Listen back to a conversation on MPR News with host Angela Davis about what it’s like to move into adulthood with autism.
Dr. Thomas Wyatt says HCMC, like many hospitals in the U.S., has too few places for people to go for more treatment once they’ve had acute care in emergency rooms.
Minnesota Department of Health experts still don’t have enough data to find a clear pattern or trend for the virus. Senior epidemiologist Keeley Morris said Minnesota does tend to experience a “summer increase” and that it appeared that the number of cases happened earlier this season.
Selected to carry the Israeli flag to help open the Paris Games, Andi Murez wrapped up her third Olympics and will head almost straight for Minnesota to begin her next major project: She's starting her residency program in psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic.
For many Minnesotans, dragon boat racing is a fun way to enjoy the water and form new friendships. But for more than 80 women in the Twin Cities who’ve survived cancer, it runs much deeper. They’ve forged a sisterhood that’s helped them heal.
Tens of thousands of low-level marijuana-related cases have already been erased but the task of expunging records of felony convictions is far more complex. A new state board is figuring out how to do it.
A year after cannabis was legalized in Minnesota, dispensaries in tribal nations have been cultivating and selling the drug. Nahayla Londo of the Waabigwan Mashkiki Dispensary in White Earth Nation, assumed growing marijuana would be similar to her family's vegetable garden.
Today marks one year of legalized recreational marijuana. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Zach Wilson, CEO of the White Earth operation known as Waabigwan Mashkiki, to reflect on this first year and look forward to what's next.
Last August, Red Lake Nation opened NativeCare, a seed-to-sale cannabis operation. The state’s first cannabis dispensary has hired new leadership and will embark on a campaign to educate customers about the benefits of cannabis.