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    April 25, 2019
    This is an architect's sketch of Sanford's downtown Fargo medical campus with planned expansions and improvements that will be built in the coming years through investments of more than $100 million. Special to The Forum
    Sanford investing over $100M to make Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo a 'destination' for treatment
    FARGO — Sanford Health plans a major expansion of its Roger Maris Cancer Center, including the addition of bone marrow transplant and immunotherapy...
    business/healthcare19 hours 34 min ago
    April 24, 2019
    Public health nurse Deb Floren shows a vial of the measles vaccine Thursday at the Kandiyohi County Health and Human Services Building in Willmar. Briana Sanchez / Forum News Service
    Measles cases break record since disease was eliminated in United States in 2000
    Measles cases in the United States have now exceeded the highest number on record in a single year since the disease was eliminated in 2000.Nationwide,...
    business/healthcareApril 24, 2019 - 3:11pm
    April 20, 2019
    Alan O'Neil, left, CEO of Unity Medical Center, Grafton, takes a break with staff (from left) Sandra Lessard, Nicole Zimmerman, Matt Viscito, Jared Marquardt and Whitney Thompson. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Heraldplay button
    ‘Not just a hospital,' 17 rural ND hospitals operating at a loss
    Brad Gibbens grew up in Cando, N.D., where a single hospital provided care for people up to 50 miles away. That distance may seem unsettling,...
    business/healthcareApril 20, 2019 - 6:09pm
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    How does measles spread? Do I need another MMR vaccine shot? How dangerous is measles? FAQ on the outbreaks
    The United States is experiencing its second-highest number of measles cases in nearly two decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
    business/healthcareApril 20, 2019 - 3:50pm
    April 13, 2019
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    Federal and state governments tackle prescription drug pricing
    In an effort to learn about rising prescription drug costs, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee invited the five largest pharmacy benefit managers...
    business/healthcareApril 13, 2019 - 12:08pm
    April 11, 2019
    Paige and Rich Hardy parked their ice fishing house in a University of Minnesota Morris parking lot because Paige was on call at Stevens Community Medical Center during the blizzard. The couple lives in Chokio. Courtesy of Paige Hardy
    On-call midwife stays in ice fishing house during blizzard
    MORRIS, Minn. — Babies were due to arrive and nurse midwife Paige Hardy had to make sure she was there for the delivery at Stevens Community...
    business/healthcareApril 11, 2019 - 6:49pm
    April 5, 2019
    Payton Rude, 13, inside a pressurized hyperbaric chamber at a south Fargo clinic. Photo provided to WDAYplay button
    With $2M grant, Fargo clinic hopes to expand access to head injury treatment in its high-pressure chambers
    FARGO — After a series of four concussions in just two years, 13-year-old Payton Rude's health wasn't improving. The repeated head injuries...
    business/healthcareApril 5, 2019 - 2:41pm
    April 3, 2019
    Physical therapist April Gerard demonstrates verbal and tactile queues to relax and derotate Patsy Ingebrigtsen's spinal curve at St. Luke's Mount Royal Medical Clinic on March 27. Gerard uses a non-invasive method called the Schroth Method. Tyler Schank / Forum News Service
    Ahead of the curve: Exercise-based physical therapy method helps people with scoliosis
    April Gerard had been a physical therapist for decades when she discovered a treatment method that helped with her own scoliosis. Now, she’s...
    business/healthcareApril 3, 2019 - 6:45am
    March 31, 2019
    ACA on shaky ground: Repeal could affect 1.2M in Minnesota, about 20K in North Dakota
    Nearly 20,000 North Dakotans enrolled in the state’s Medicaid expansion stand to lose health insurance coverage if the Affordable Care Act...
    business/healthcareMarch 31, 2019 - 6:33am
    March 27, 2019
    File photo of Alice Boschbarker, a mammographer with Essentia Health, demonstrates the new 3D mammography scanner in 2016 in Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
    FDA wants women to get breast-density information along with mammogram
    WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, March 27, proposed requiring mammogram providers to notify women with dense breasts...
    business/healthcareMarch 27, 2019 - 12:43pm
    March 26, 2019
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    WalletHub: North Dakota, Minnesota among best states for doctors
    GRAND FORKS — North Dakota and Minnesota are ranked as two of the best states for doctors. According to personal finance website WalletHub,...
    business/healthcareMarch 26, 2019 - 4:24pm
    Trump administration moves to gut Affordable Care Act
    The Trump administration is hardening its position against the Affordable Care Act and arguing now that the entire law is unconstitutional, a...
    business/healthcareMarch 26, 2019 - 11:34am
    March 25, 2019
    Upper Midwest states rank among best for doctors, study finds
    WASHINGTON - Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota among the top 10 states to practice medicine, according to a WalletHub study released Monday,...
    business/healthcareMarch 25, 2019 - 3:22pm
    March 22, 2019
    Hospitals lean into virtual health care even as Medicare won't cover it
    CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- From a glassy four-story building in the St. Louis suburbs, doctors and nurses at Mercy Virtual Care Center give checkups and monitor vital signs for patients located miles away -- sometimes even in other states. Yet much of its long-distance treatment isn't yet...
    business/healthcareMarch 22, 2019 - 7:13pm
    March 17, 2019
    Prescription costs an issue with many factors and a long history
    GRAND FORKS — For some, driving hours or even across an international border is easier than paying high prices for prescription medication. “I have some patients who drive up to Canada to get insulin because it is cheaper there. They pay for it in cash,” said Dr. Eric Johnson,...
    business/healthcareMarch 17, 2019 - 6:53am
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