With flu and RSV rampant, bed shortages causing young patients to be transferred to other hospitals

The flu is making so many children sick that some hospitals are running out of room and transferring patients to hospitals that have an open bed.

• Dec 12, 2022

"Super Tom" celebrates his first birthday after life-saving heart transplant

"Our worst year ever, but also our best year ever because we have Tom," said his father Shlomo Kalman Hillel.

• Dec 11, 2022

Minnetonka firefighter suffers severe brain injury during training

According to updates from his family, Tim Tripp has been in intensive care since the fall and was placed in a medically-induced coma.

• Dec 10, 2022

Masonic Children's "head elf" is bringing holiday cheer

A head elf is helping make the holidays a little brighter for kids in the hospital -- and lifting a load off parents.

• Dec 9, 2022

Minnesota Department of Health wary of rising Group A Strep infections

November saw the highest number of cases recorded of the infection.

• Dec 9, 2022

COVID viral load up 66% in metro compared to pre-Thanksgiving levels

Levels of COVID-19 are increasing in the metro area, reaching levels not seen since the spring.

• Dec 9, 2022

Minnesota family opens up about their daughter's concussion journey to help others

"I don't feel as like social and I don't feel as vibrant as I used to be," said Meredith Umbreit.

• Dec 8, 2022

Minnesota's ICU beds filling up amid surge in influenza cases

The total number of hospitalizations is already roughly half the previous pre-COVID season -- 1,857 so far compared with 4,022 the entire 2019-2020 season.

• Dec 8, 2022

"It's just really affirming": FDA will "likely" end policy banning gay men from donating blood

"Now that we have technologies and advancements and safe sex practices, this policy is really questionable nowadays," said medical student Christopher Johns.

• Dec 7, 2022

Nurses reach tentative deals with multiple hospitals ahead of strike

Minnesota nurses have reached tentative agreements with nearly all hospitals to avert a planned strike later this month.

• Dec 6, 2022

Outgoing Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm on being villainized during pandemic, and the road ahead

Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm is retiring next month after decades of public service, including the past few years helping to steer the state through a global pandemic.

• Dec 5, 2022

Former foster child, now U of M med student, earns leadership award for helping kids like him

A University of Minnesota med student is getting a special award for mentoring young people.

• Dec 4, 2022

Teen gets second chance at life after heart transplant at Children's Minnesota

A Fargo teen is recovering at Children's Minnesota in Minneapolis after doctors successfully gave him a new heart.

• Dec 2, 2022

Hospitals get creative to treat surge of patients

Hospitals and clinics say they are pulling out all the stops to maintain patient care at a time when there's a strain on the system.

• Dec 2, 2022

Amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus in St. Paul wastewater highest since July

The quantity of the viral load has been steadily increasing for several weeks.

• Dec 2, 2022

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