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Prairie St. John's proposed hospital
The Minnesota House is on the record with overwhelming support for a proposed children's psychiatric hospital in Woodbury, but Senate approval is iffy. (05/08/2008)
Mine sign
The rare lung cancer afflicting miners on the Iron Range will be the topic of extensive study now that Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed a bill providing money for the research. (04/28/2008)
Northshore plant
Legislation that authorizes a nearly $5 million study of lung cancer among Iron Range miners is on its way to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's desk. The House gave final approval to the bill today on a vote of 121-1. (04/24/2008)
Research of a rare cancer affecting Iron Range miners will go forward, after lawmakers and Gov. Tim Pawlenty reached a compromise over the funding. (04/17/2008)
Funding for a study of a kind of lung cancer that might be connected to mining taconite is moving through the state House. It was approved last week by a House committee. (03/10/2008)
A health care task force appointed by Gov. Pawlenty and a Legislative Commission on Health Care Access are out with new reports. Midday examines their recommendations. (Midday, 02/08/2008)
Sanne Magnan, the new head of the Minnesota Department of Health, talks with MPR's Cathy Wurzer about reforming the troubled department. (09/28/2007)
The CEO of the Mayo Clinic has a new vision for reforming America's health care system. (Midday, 09/20/2007)
Just a little more than two weeks remain before the State Children's Health Insurance Program is set to expire. During its current five-year authorization, the federal program has provided $25 billion to states to insure needy children. (09/13/2007)
Gov. Pawlenty says the latest version of the nearly $10 billion health and human Services bill is still too big. But, he suggested Tuesday that it might win his approval anyway. (05/22/2007)
Gov. Pawlenty has vetoed a health and welfare spending bill that passed the Legislature on Monday. (05/08/2007)
The Minnesota House dismissed a threatened veto by Gov. Pawlenty and passed a health and human services budget bill that had sailed through the Senate earlier Monday. (05/07/2007)
If Minnesotans were dying from something every year at a higher rate than homicide, AIDS, and DWI combined, one might think state policy makers would be doing everything they could to prevent it. (05/07/2007)
The bill passed on a preliminary vote of 33-31, after debate over the agonies of the sick and the danger of sending mixed messages to youth about illegal drugs. (05/01/2007)
A statewide smoking ban expected to get a vote in the Minnesota House Thursday would threaten renegade smokers and permissive proprietors with fines of up to $300. However, the history of local smoking bans in six counties and 10 cities suggests such penalties would be rare. (04/25/2007)

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