Laura McCallumThe signature red door officially opens in Minnetonka later today. Anyone who’s either battled cancer or watched a loved one fight the battle is probably familiar with Gilda’s Club, named in memory of comedian Gilda Radner, who died from ovarian cancer in 1989. The clubs are gathering places where people living with cancer can come Read more →
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Tag: Health
Laura YuenThe Twin Cities ballerinas who recently started a conversation about eating disorders will perform their first contemporary show as an “artist-led” company. Read more →
Sasha AslanianThe American Cancer Society held its final batch of enrollment events around the Twin Cities today, and snagged well over the 2,000 volunteers it was seeking for CPS-3, its third Cancer Prevention Study. For the next 20 years, 300,000 volunteers around the country will give cancer researchers reams of data. Today, I enrolled. Perrie H. Read more →
Elizabeth DunbarSorry to be the bearer of more bad news (did you hear it’s going to snow again today?), but the late spring likely won’t have an impact on the size of this year’s mosquito population. Jim Stark, who directs the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District, said the mosquitoes will simply start showing up a little later Read more →
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