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What about the mentally ill?

Bob Collins January 10, 2011, 10:45 AM Jan 10, 2011

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There seems to be little question the shooter in Arizona was mentally ill. So why isn’t there more discussion about treatment for mentally ill people?

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Health care repeal attempt: Whom do you believe?

Bob Collins January 6, 2011, 12:03 PM Jan 6, 2011

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What if repealing the health care bill increases the deficit?

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Death of a doc

Bob Collins December 31, 2010, 10:14 AM Dec 31, 2010

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A doctor who brought health care to a small island out of a moral obligation has died.

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Trauma doc: ‘Get off the roof!”

Bob Collins December 30, 2010, 11:09 AM Dec 30, 2010

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Five people have been taken to Regions Hospital since Christmas after falling off their roof. Two died.

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The woman cut in half

Bob Collins December 20, 2010, 12:00 PM Dec 20, 2010

Janis Ollson of Manitoba, underwent a surgery that had never been performed at Mayo Clinic in Rochester before.

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March of the diabetics

Bob Collins December 6, 2010, 3:22 PM Dec 6, 2010

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Compared to the South, Minnesota gets off pretty easy. But it’s not too hard to see why diabetes is going to cost the U.S. over $3.4 trillion.

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Can we afford to reverse the aging process?

Bob Collins December 1, 2010, 1:00 PM Dec 1, 2010

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Harvard researchers have appeared to reverse the aging process in mice. We’re next.

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Fat: It’s what’s for lunch

Bob Collins November 29, 2010, 2:12 PM Nov 29, 2010

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In one Minneapolis school, nothing says ‘fun’ like a wad of fat stuffed in collagen casings.

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Health and the food court

Bob Collins November 18, 2010, 11:40 AM Nov 18, 2010

A Today Show reporter finds more than 60-percent of the vendors in the food court at the Mall of America have had violations since 2009.

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The suicide peg

Bob Collins October 4, 2010, 11:50 AM Oct 4, 2010

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The death of a Rutgers student and kids in the Anoka Hennepin school district has brought attention to a problem that should have had it long ago.

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Surveys and trivia

Why do kids in rural areas drink more?

Bob Collins October 1, 2010, 3:17 PM Oct 1, 2010

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A new study says it’s not because there’s nothing else to do.

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Dear parents, Take the foot off the gas

Bob Collins September 24, 2010, 10:18 AM Sep 24, 2010

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Is one reason there’s a high number of suicides among teenagers the pressure parents put on their kids?

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Study: Hearing loss in young people overstated

Bob Collins September 20, 2010, 11:09 AM Sep 20, 2010

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University of Minnesota researchers have blown a hole in one of the basic assumptions of life: That loud music is destroying the hearing of young people.

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