Bob CollinsThe King v. Burwell decision pitted Chief Justice John Roberts against Justice Antonin Scalia. Again. Read more →
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Memo to marketers and brand managers. When you come up with your super-memorable jingle to push your product, make sure it can’t come back to haunt you 40 years later. Read more →
A new program in Minnesota got scant attention during the legislative session, but lawmakers approved funding for a program offering early detection and treatment of psychosis in young people. Read more →
In Wisconsin, Jack Maier buys billboard space to keep what happened to his wife from happening to other people, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Read more →
A kangaroo cannot be a service animal. So ruled the Common Council of Beaver Dam, Wis., this week.
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The bride was attended to by hospice nurses. Her husband has cerebral palsy, the Des Moines Register reports. Read more →
Other than Bobby Hull, no player was more identified with the Chicago Blackhawks back in the day than Stan Mikita. Those were the good days. Read more →
The New York Times followed a Kentucky man with a chronic illness from the months before the national health law went into effect.
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Braden Gandee, of Temperance, Mich., was born at 32 weeks with cerebral palsy. He can’t walk.
So his brother, Hunter, carries him on his back. Everywhere. Read more →
There may be no more sacred cow in the United States than the American Red Cross, but it’s got a disaster of its own in the wake of an NPR/ProPublica investigation that showed the Red Cross is challenged to explain where half-a-billion dollars in donations to Haiti earthquake relief went. The charity’s own documents, however, Read more →
It follows testing at Mayo facilities in Arizona and Florida in which it was found that women without nylons don’t affect patient care. Read more →
Chopper might be among the most famous therapy dogs but when he and his owner returned from a trip that included visiting VA hospitals and nursing homes, his owner found out that Pet Partners, a nonprofit group that evaluates and insures therapy animals, is dropping Chopper because he wears a biker outfit. Read more →
Andre Pearson, 61, of Omaha, has been a patient at Mayo Clinic in Rochester since March. He has serious heart problems. But he made it to his daughter’s California wedding. Read more →
With the Minnesota Twins in Boston to face the Red Sox yesterday, it was the perfect time for Eden Stone of West Roxbury, Mass., to meet Paula Kelly of St. Paul.
Next Tuesday they’ll meet each other again — inside Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital when Eden will get one of Paula’s kidneys. Read more →
Anyone with a loved one with mental illness will recognize the pain that Sedaris tenderly describes. Read more →