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ST. PAUL -- One person in Minnesota is part of an ongoing multistate outbreak of salmonella Bredeney infections associated with Trader Joe’s Valencia Creamy Salted Peanut Butter made with sea...

BEMIDJI – Interested parties are invited to an open meeting over the noon hour Friday to hear the results of 10 months’ worth of investigation into the possibility of creating...

Sanford Bemidji welcomes Potratz BEMIDJI –Lee Potratz recently joined Sanford Bemidji Orthopedic Clinic as a physician assistant specializing in orthopedic medicine. Potratz will be working in the orthopedic clinic at...

Perhaps you should be sitting down to read this. Or maybe standing up would be better. Standing up, running in place and frantically yanking the carbs out of your children’s...

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — We Americans already know how fat we are. Can it get much worse? Apparently, yes, according to an advocacy group...

By Brandon Stahl, Forum Communications DULUTH — When Brandon Castellano was a drug dealer working in Cloquet and Duluth, he sold marijuana and pain-killers such as OxyContin — but his...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cancer is now the leading killer of Hispanics in the U.S. — the latest sign it's beginning to displace heart disease as the nation's top cause...

I would like to publicly give a sincere thank you to Nymore resident Dan Rice for coming to my aid on Sept. 6. Shortly before noon, while walking to my...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main cause: The safer vaccine that...

By Missy Thomas, Special to the Pioneer “Back-To-School” sales have been in full swing for a while, and both the leaves and warmer weather will soon be changing. However, the...

By Tom Robertson, MPR News 91.3 FM ST. PAUL – Minnesota could have within several years several hundred practicing “community paramedics,” a new designation of health care providers spawned by...