Health Notes: Scholarships offered for nursing assistant classes
Scholarships are available to help cover the cost of American Red Cross nursing assistant training classes over the next three months at the Northland chapter in Duluth.Duluth News Tribune, 05/09/2013
Last Place on Earth gets under some skin
Duluth’s most controversial business is advertising in a distinctive way: With the words “Last Place on Earth” tattooed on the arms, hands, necks and thighs of some of the head shop’s customers.Duluth News Tribune, 05/08/2013
St. Scholastica staff, students lobby for nursing-law change
Nurses with advanced degrees can fill a gap in providing health care, advocates say. But in Minnesota, they’re not always able to practice in the areas where they’re needed.Duluth News Tribune, 05/06/2013
Morgan Park takes leave of its biggest booster
They say you can’t take it with you, but when Debbie Isabell-Nelson leaves her collection-filled Morgan Park home, she’s going to take some of it.Duluth News Tribune, 05/05/2013
Evidence of abuse found in Northland nursing homes
Special investigators substantiated one case of neglect and another case of abuse in Northland nursing homes.Duluth News Tribune, 05/01/2013
Essentia adds 'telestroke' to stroke treatment services
Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center, which last fall was certified as the first primary stroke center north of the Twin Cities, is adding another new wrinkle to its stroke care.Duluth News Tribune, 04/30/2013
A third of stroke victims delay action by avoiding ambulance
A new study says many stroke victims lose valuable time by not taking an ambulance to the hospital.Duluth News Tribune, 04/30/2013
Organists make their pitch to young musicians in Duluth
Area organists gave a behind-the-scenes look at the king of instruments in the third annual Pedals, Pipes and Pizza event put on by the Arrowhead Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.Duluth News Tribune, 04/28/2013
LCO Band families affected by drug misuse
Every family on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation has been touched in one way or another by the misuse of illegal or prescription drugs, Paul DeMain said last week.Duluth News Tribune, 04/28/2013
Lac Courte Oreilles Band struggling with widespread prescription drug abuse
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe is struggling with what its leaders call a widespread problem with prescription drug abuse and have terminated the doctor who the band says made narcotic painkillers too readily available to his patients.Duluth News Tribune, 04/28/2013
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