Jean Abraham
12/3: Rural-urban flip: How changing ACA rules affected health insurance premium costs (EurekAlert!)
12/4: Health policy experts highlight the impact of ACA rules on health insurance premium costs (News-Medical.Net)
12/4: Why health insurance in rural America is suddenly getting cheaper under Obamacare (Vox)
12/6: Why health insurance in rural America is suddenly getting cheaper under Obamacare (MSN)

Amira Adawe (student – MPH ’15)
12/5: Fight against colorism takes on Amazon: Beauty ‘cannot be one skin color’ (The New York Times)

Susan Arnold
12/12: Research Brief: Keeping health care workers safe from chemotherapy drugs (UMN News)
12/13: Keeping health care workers safe from chemotherapy drugs (Medical Xpress)

Silvia Balbo
12/8: C&EN’s Year in Chemistry 2019 (Chemical & Engineering News)

Lynn Blewett
12/2: Minorities and uninsured report being treated with respect less often by medical professionals (MedicalResearch.com)

Kathleen Call 
12/16: New health care study looks at rates of uninsured (Southwest Journal – Minneapolis, MN)

Janette Dill 
12/8: Opinion: The upside-down economics of the health insurance system (Juneau Empire – AK)

Rachel Hardeman 
12/15: The secret to saving the lives of black mothers and babies (Politico)

Carrie Henning-Smith
12/5: Research Roundup: Fetal alcohol syndrome; rural health care; Medicare plans; and more (Kaiser Health News)
12/26: In sickness and in health: Access to nearby, quality health care is a growing priority in Greater Minnesota (Waseca County News – MN)

Hyun Kim
12/16: U of M research offers rare look at the lives of janitors (MinnPost – Minneapolis, MN)

Katy Kozhimannil 
12/3: Charleston doulas say black providers are needed to improve maternal, infant mortality (The Post and Courier – Charleston, SC)
12/4: Research Brief: Rural residents at greater risk of maternal morbidity and mortality compared to urban residents (UMN News)
12/4: Rural women at higher risk of life-threatening pregnancy complications (EurekAlert!)
12/4: Childbirth deaths and complications are more likely in rural America (Minneapolis Star Tribune – MN)
12/5: Making childbirth safer for rural Minnesota moms (Minneapolis Star Tribune – MN)
12/9: Is childbirth more dangerous in rural areas? (U.S. News & World Report)
12/10: Health Notes: Childbirth, MNsure, flu and alcohol-cancer link (Duluth News Tribune – MN)
12/16: Other Opinion: Rural health care reaching a crisis stage (Brainerd Dispatch – MN)
12/16: Study: Rural residents at greater risk of maternal morbidity, mortality (Northfield News – MN)
12/20: Make motherhood safer in rural America (Minneapolis Star Tribune – MN)
12/24: Coping with loss of hospital, rural town realizes: We don’t need a hospital (Kaiser Health News)
12/24: Coping with loss of hospital, rural town realizes: We don’t need a hospital (Health Leaders Media)
12/26: 1 year after losing its hospital, a rural town is determined to survive (WGBH Radio – Boston, MA)
12/26: 1 year after losing its hospital, a rural town is determined to survive (WFUV Radio – Fordham University)
12/26: 1 year after losing its hospital, a rural town is determined to survive (WAMU Radio – American University)
12/26: 1 year after losing its hospital, a rural town is determined to survive (WCMU Radio – Central Michigan University)
12/26: 1 year after losing its hospital, a rural town is determined to survive (WABE Radio – Atlanta, GA)
12/27: Childbirth complications are more common in rural areas in the U.S. (Babygaga)

Pamela Lutsey
12/20: Warfarin more harmful to bone health than DOACs (Cardiovascular Business)

Jude Mikal 
12/11: Research Brief: Discovering how people with breast cancer use Facebook for support (UMN News)
12/13: Discovering how people with breast cancer use Facebook for support (Waseca County News – MN)
12/13: Can Facebook help women fight breast cancer? Research wants to know (Inforum)
12/13: Can Facebook help women fight breast cancer? Research wants to know (Brainerd Dispatch – MN)
12/13: Can Facebook help women fight breast cancer? Research wants to know (West Central Tribune – Willmar, MN)
12/13: Can Facebook help women fight breast cancer? Research wants to know (The Daily Republic – Mitchell, SD)

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
12/11: Body-inclusive yoga classes fight against fat shaming (Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – MN)

Michael Osterholm 
12/3: Fatal deer disease slows hunt in Mississippi national forest (USA Today Network)
12/4: Zombie outbreak: A fatal disease turning deer into ‘zombies’ can spread to humans (EconoTimes)
12/4: Health officials wait to see if the flu vaccine will prove effective in Minnesota (Minnesota Public Radio News)
12/4: Health officials wait to see if the flu vaccine will prove effective in Minnesota (Rochester Post Bulletin – MN)
12/9: ‘The pandemic clock is ticking’: A race against time for a universal flu vaccine (The Telegraph – UK)
12/13: Flu season is here, and it’s coming for your kids (San Francisco Chronicle – CA)
12/13: Flu season is here, and it’s targeting your kids (Bloomberg)
12/13: Flu season is here, and it’s coming for your kids (Providence Journal – RI)
12/13: Flu season is here, and it’s coming for your kids (Herald-Mail – Hagerstown, MD)
12/14: Flu season is here, spurring uptick in visits to the doctor in US (The Keene Sentinel – NH)
12/18: Flu season is here, and it’s coming for your kids (The Daily News – Jacksonville, NC)

Helen Parsons
12/19: Obamacare improved CRC treatment in young adults (Medpage Today)
12/20: ‘Victory for the Rule of Law’: What We Heard This Week (Medpage Today)

Colin Planalp (SHADAC)
12/2: Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug (Medical Xpress)
12/7: Death toll from tainted cocaine rising across the country (Sentinel Source – Keene, NH)

Rural Health Research Center 
12/31: The decade in healthcare: 12 milestones we won’t forget (Becker’s Hospital Review)

Kyle Rudser
12/10: Research Brief: Examining secondhand smoke and cardiovascular risks in children (UMN News)
12/12: Secondhand smoke starts kids on path to heart disease: study (U.S. News & World Report)

Matt Simcik 
12/23: Should I stop the kids from eating snow? (Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – MN)

State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC)
12/23: How to pay for pricey prescriptions (Kiplinger)
12/30: Resurge la cocaina y se vuelve mas mortal en todo el pais (Los Angeles Times -CA)
12/30: Cocaine overdoses rise as fentanyl is mixed in (Omaha World-Herald – NE) 

Leigh Turner
12/1: Clinic pitches unproven treatments to desperate patients, with tips on raising the cash (The Washington Post)
12/5: Scientists dodge FDA to offer a $1 million anti-aging treatment in Colombia (Medium)
12/10: New anti-aging clinical trial begins. For $1 million, you can be a participant. (Livescience)
12/12: U.S. agency warns company marketing ‘stem cells’ for autism (Spectrum News)

Rob Walker, Pamela Lutsey and Richard MacLehose
12/11: Men who receive testosterone therapy nearly twice as likely to develop blood clots, researchers find (Minnesota Daily)

Rachel Widome
12/9: Research Brief: Less sleep linked to teen obesity, poor eating habits and low physical activity (UMN News)
12/17: Study: Ninth-graders need more Z’s (Duluth News Tribune – MN)
12/18: Schools weigh later start times for teens (Faribault Daily News – MN)
12/20: Generation sleep-deprivation finally catches a break (Inforum)