University of Minnesota to host conferences on informed consent in research

The two days of conferences and training sessions are collectively titled “Frontier Issues in Research Ethics.” Professor Susan Wolf, chair of the University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, emphasizes the urgency of this enterprise, ” Making consent work is crucial to protecting the people generous enough to participate in research.

Health insurers say they need insurance protection from big claims

In Minnesota’s individual market, health insurers can lose big money if they wind up with a disproportionate share of sick patients who rack up massive bills. Of the roughly 336,000 Minnesotans who were covered by individual plans at some point during 2015, slightly less than 2a …percent – or 5,300 people – generated roughly 40 percent of all medical bills, according to the state’s trade group for insurers.

Obama’s Minnesota legacy

From a health care overhaul to student-debt relief, President Obama’s policies had a significant impact on the lives of many Minnesotans. Minnesota was an early adopter of Obama’s health care overhaul, bringing the number of uninsured residents in the state to an all-time low.

As flu cases surge, vaccinations stall

… peaks in Minnesota. There’s still time to get a flu shot, but federal data show most people haven’t bothered. Public health officials are publicizing the increase in flu cases with hopes the information will spur people to rush out for a flu shot. …