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THE NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOORS AND BEYOND Chronic wasting disease results
Samples taken from North Dakota deer during the 2012 hunting season have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease, according to Dr. Dan Grove, wildlife veterinarian for the State Game and Fish ...
Posted on 3/12/13 at 12:09 PM
COBBERS ON THE BRAIN The MAPK Pathway
The MAPK pathway is incredibly important in our brain. Its functions range from cell growth and development to inflammation and cell death. This pathway is incredibly large and is responsible for many...
Posted on 12/11/12 at 9:19 PM
HEALTHBEAT Type 1 diabetes - dancing with a Tasmanian devil
What is it really like to live every single day with type 1 diabetes? This blog is being turned over today to one of my newsroom colleagues who can speak frankly about it: She and her husband have fir...
Posted on 10/29/12 at 11:52 AM
RURAL REFLECTIONS Rural Reflections Radio
Here is this week's Rural Reflections Radio program, Let sleeping birds lie...
Posted on 8/3/12 at 4:31 AM
THE NEW FORTY In sickness and in health...
I have spent the bulk of my day in bed - not because I was luxuriating in my laziness and not because I was having a wild sex romp - because I was just too dizzy and nauseous to go anywhere else. I di...
Posted on 7/25/12 at 9:56 PM
Minnesota reports 12th fungal meningitis case 
Minnesota reported its 12th confirmed case of fungal meningitis Tuesday in a national outbreak linked to tainted steroids from a Massachusetts pharmacy.
By Associated Press , November 13, 2012
Brooklyn Park, Minn., woman deals with fungal meningitis
Pain is no stranger to Traci Maccoux. Health officials say Maccoux is one of 11 Minnesotans -- and 438 people across the country -- with a confirmed case of fungal meningitis that has been linked to contaminated medications from a Massachusetts drug maker, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
By Christopher Snowbeck , November 12, 2012
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Minnesota records 10th fungal meningitis case
Minnesota on Tuesday confirmed its 10th case of fungal meningitis in a national outbreak tied to a tainted steroid from a Massachusetts pharmacy.
By Associated Press , October 30, 2012
Feds cut number of Minnesota clinics that got NECC drugs
The federal government now says 111 Minnesota clinics received drugs from a Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a fungal meningitis outbreak. That's 18 fewer clinics than state officials reported last week after receiving a different provider list, and they don't know why the number changed.
By Associated Press , October 26, 2012
Grand Forks company unscrambling science, finding virus treatments
In the Midwest, geese are often associated with hunting, not saving lives. A company in Grand Forks is working to change that. Avianax is closing in on developing a treatment for viral diseases, including West Nile and avian flu viruses, using goose antibodies.
By Dorris Cooper , June 23, 2012
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Beef industry: Rope, throw and … ear tag ’em
Ranchers see demise of branding, a symbol of the WestOne of the West’s most enduring symbols is fading like a red-hot branding iron cools to ashen gray. With concerns over disease and global trade trumping tradition, federal regulators want ranchers to swap the old-fashioned cattle brand for electronic ear tags to quickly and reliably identify livestock.
By Lisa Krieger , January 21, 2012
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Deer disease found in cattle in western North Dakota
A disease that kills white-tailed deer has been found in cattle in Morton and Grant counties.
November 25, 2011
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White-tailed deer being killed by disease in western N.D.
North Dakota wildlife officials say a disease that kills white-tailed deer appears to be present in a large part of western North Dakota.
By Associated Press , October 18, 2011
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HEALTH: Alzheimer’s disease: New guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease published for first time in 27 years
Across the United States, every 69 seconds someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Nearly 5.5 million already have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Last month, for the first time in more than a quarter century new medical guidelines for the disease were released. Herald reporter Ann Bailey talked with Michelle Barclay, Alzheimer’s Association of Minnesota-North Dakota vice president of programs, about the new guidelines.
Here is an edited version of their conversation:
By Ann Bailey , May 07, 2011
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BRAD DOKKEN: Whew! Unattached deer tick tests positive for Lyme disease
Few things have given me that “Whew! That was a close one!” reaction like the news I received this week: A deer tick I found crawling on me last spring tested positive for Lyme disease.
By Brad Dokken , February 13, 2011
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Nearly 200 dead, more than 2,000 sick as cholera outbreak spreads toward Haiti's capital
Cholera is a bacterial infection spread through contaminated water. It causes severe diarrhea and vomiting that can lead to dehydration and death within hours. An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital.
By Jacob Kushner , October 23, 2010
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Haiti's mass graves swell; doctors fear more death
Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn that people are still dying of their injuries.
By Mike Melia and Paul Haven , January 21, 2010
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