University of Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill and his wife are setting up a fund to pay for training on how to respond to epileptic seizures. Kill suffers from epilepsy, and has missed all or part of some games because of seizures. He says the help he received from his wife, Rebecca, and others during Read more →
Louise Stenberg, who designs health education programs for the University of Minnesota‘s School of Public Health, tells MPR’s Lorna Benson why the new online game she helped create — Epidemic! — may lure students into public-health careers: “[An epidemic is] usually the time when public health does make the news and it’s usually the time Read more →
Need to trim the ole’ middle-age waistline — perhaps take off a few dozen pounds? Go to college. That did the trick for MinnPost media-writer-on-hiatus David Brauer. When I interviewed him recently about how he’d just finished his degree at the the University of Minnesota, he told me the U helped him drop 30 pounds Read more →
University of Minnesota HR chief Kathy Brown tells MPR’s Catharine Richert that it is trying to dodge a $48 million “Cadillac tax” in the Affordable Care Act that tries to discourage employers from offering top-tier health insurance: “We now are faced with the challenge of the Affordable Care Act and some of the requirements of Read more →
University of Minnesota regents on Friday will discuss a 5-year, multimillion-dollar plan that lets the U and Fairview Health Services jointly manage the services they perform together. The agreement, a year and a half in the making, would affect the University of Minnesota Physicians clinics, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Amplatz Children’s Hospital and planned Read more →
University of Minnesota student Justin LaMachia tells the Star Tribune what he thinks about a move to ban smoking at the school: “In some ways, that could be a good initiative. If I can’t smoke in school, if I can’t smoke here, here or here, I might as well just give it up.” The U Read more →
Another dining award for St. Olaf College — Its food has put the college on The 25 Healthiest Colleges in the U.S. list by Greatist.com, which also made USA Today. Although the ranking cited other colleges’ fitness facilities and initiatives, it was apparently the chow that earned Oles 23rd place: St. Olaf’s food service program Read more →
A new report card has recently appeared that measures how well universities’ labs and health programs benefit the world’s poor. It measures, among other things, how much they research global diseases neglected by market-driven medicine, and how much access poor countries get to their results. Few universities have done well; the University of British Columbia Read more →
This is timely enough, considering we’ve just come off Thanksgiving. TommieMedia (of the University of St. Thomas) covers an Ohio State University study that says the Freshman 15 is a myth. What it finds: Women 2.4 pounds, on average; Men 3.4 pounds; Weight gain does happen over a college career — 7-9 pounds on average for Read more →
Spokesman Dave Golden of the University of Minnesota’s Boynton Health Service — which recently upped staff to cover a backlog of mental health cases — tells the Minnesota Daily what health officials are seeing there: “Our demand is up, our patient visits are up, but diagnosis [of depression] on campus is down.” MPR’s Tim Post Read more →
Alex Friedrich