Thursday, October 20, 2016

Allina to negotiate Tuesday with striking nurses - TwinCities.com and other top stories.

  • Allina to negotiate Tuesday with striking nurses - TwinCities.com

    A Tuesday negotiating session has been set between Allina Health and the Minnesota Nurses Association, which has been on strike since Labor Day. The 4,800 Twin Cities nurses will have to begin covering the full cost of their health insurance plans Oct. 1 if a deal is not reached. The sides disagree over how to transition to a less generous health plan. Negotiations so far have produced agreement on 2 percent annual pay raises in addition to step increases and multiple workplace safety proposals..
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  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative To Spend $3 Billion To Cure Diseases: What Are The Plans In Store?

    Chan Zuckerberg Initiative To Spend $3 Billion To Cure Diseases: What Are The Plans In Store?
    Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg want a disease-free world by the time this century ends and they're about to spend $3 billion to make sure it happens. At an event in San Francisco, Facebook's chief executive and his wife announced that they will spend $3 billion periodically over the next decade, hoping to aid scientists and engineers in curing, preventing and managing all diseases in a program called Chan Zuckerberg Science. In late 2015 Zuckerberg vowed to donate 99 percent of his shar..
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  • Hundreds Stepped Out of Darkness to Spread Awareness on Suicide

    Hundreds Stepped Out of Darkness to Spread Awareness on Suicide
    Hundreds Stepped Out of Darkness to Spread Awareness on Suicide Bree Levine Updated: 09/24/2016 11:22 PM Created: 09/24/2016 7:34 PM (ABC 6 News) – More than 700 people stepped out of the darkness Saturday to raise awareness for an issue that’s often hard to talk about: suicide. The Out of Darkness Community Walk in Rochester supports families who have lost loved ones, as well as those who have attempted or tho..
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  • Library hosts talk on giving green to pink causes

    Library hosts talk on giving green to pink causes
    Holly Anderson, executive director of the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester(Photo: Provided by Jacqueline Freitas)October is lucrative for the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester.Even though it typically doesn't do its own fundraising during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many of the coalition's friends in the community are keen to promote the organization’s mission of education, support and advocacy for people with the disease.Last October, those third-party fundraisers brought in $60,000 —..
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  • How can you tell Zika from plain old flu? It's still not easy

    How can you tell Zika from plain old flu? It's still not easy
    The Zika virus has struck fear throughout the Americas, but determining whether people have been infected can be difficult.Here’s why: Most infected people don’t display symptoms or they choose to tough out what may seem like nothing more than influenza instead of seeking medical help. Moreover, infected people don’t have much detectable virus, and what’s in the body doesn’t linger.There is no commercial test approved by the Food and Drug Administration to detect Zika infections, but the agenc..
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  • Yes, we can: Turning the Taj Mahal golden for our children of cancer

    Yes, we can: Turning the Taj Mahal golden for our children of cancer
    Highlights1September is the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.2Activists want the Taj Mahal to be lit gold for the occasion.3In India, nearly 50,000 children are diagnosed with cancer every year.When Abhi Sharma was only a few months old, his parents noticed a spot in his eye. In the dim light of lanterns - as Abhi's father describes - the family or even the doctors in their village in Uttar Pradesh, where electricity is a rare sight, could not quite understand what was wrong with the baby's eye...
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  • Illness traced to Athol slaughterhouse triggers recall

    Illness traced to Athol slaughterhouse triggers recall
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  • Walk to End Alzheimer's raises awareness and hope

    Walk to End Alzheimer's raises awareness and hope
    Walk to End Alzheimer's raises awareness and hope #walk2endalz raises over $190K Kristina Rex, WCSH 12:52 AM. EST September 25, 2016 PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Alzheimer's Disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in Maine.For over 20 years, walks across the state have been raising awareness and money to put an end to this disease. Both Portland and Fort Kent held their Walks to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday.Flower windmills waved together to fight against Alzheimer's dise..
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  • 18th annual Race for the Cure raises money, awareness for breast cancer

    18th annual Race for the Cure raises money, awareness for breast cancer
    18th annual Race for the Cure raises money, awareness for breast cancer By Nadine Bonewitz Published: September 25, 2016, 7:21 am Updated: September 25, 2016, 8:36 am The course is prepared before the race, when runners will show support for breast cancer awareness, research and treatment. (KXAN Photo/Frank Martinez) AUSTIN (KXAN) — Runners, walkers, breast cancer fighters and survivors are hitting the streets Sunday for Susan G. Komen and Komen Austin’s 18th annual Ra..
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