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Dentists across Minnesota will provide free dental care for children in need at the annual Give Kids a Smile event next month. Services will be available for up to 6,000 children at more than 200 dental offices on Feb. 6 and 7.
Looking to change up your workout ways this New Year? How about hot yoga? Step into a "quiet room" at CorePower Yoga in downtown Minneapolis and you will see it's certainly not a hushed workout environment.
Yoga class is a place to feel calm, cool. But at CorePower Yoga in Highland Park, the place you voted Best of Minnesota, it's hot. "CorePower is different because we create an environment in which the yoga is fun," Regional Manager Amanda Ford said.
It's a rough and tumble, fast and physical game played on a sheet of ice. But former National Hockey League players are engaged in another role inside the Burger Federal Courthouse in St. Paul.
A fourth child has died from influenza in Minnesota since late September, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. The flu still remains widespread throughout the state, although hospitalizations and school outbreaks were significantly lower than last week.
Minnesota's health insurance exchange is getting some extra cash from the federal government. MNsure CEO Scott Leitz says they'll use an additional $34 million to make website improvements and smooth the transfer of data to insurance companies. MNsure has now received almost $190 million from the federal government.
You can't see, smell or taste radon in your home. But that doesn't mean it isn't there, according to Dr. Jon Cole of the Minnesota Poison Control System. "You have no symptoms while it's happening, and then later on, eventually you ... develop lung cancer," Cole said. Radon is the leading environmental cause of lung cancer deaths in the U.S.
Bitter cold weather means hospitals are expecting to see more cases of frostbite. Dr. Ryan Fey at Hennepin County Medical Center said he has about current patients with severe frostbite.
Sometimes our greatest failures lead to our greatest accomplishments, something to remember as we enter the second week of our new year's resolutions. For inspiration, check out Lee Hersch, who has faced setbacks in her college career and diet and exercise plans.
Are you ready to start a new workout plan? Whatever your reason to get fit may be, it's no secret that gyms will be flooded with new members as many look to change our workout ways in 2015.
Thousands of children are going back to school Monday after the holiday break and officials are hoping the time off will help stop the spread of influenza.
If running on a treadmill for hours at a time sounds a little boring, join the club -- then enter ClassPass. It allows people to access dozens of unique fitness studios all over the Twin Cities, like Six Degrees in Uptown, for a monthly fee.
Making a resolution is one the first things we do in the new year. Many make them, most don't keep them. So rather than resolving to do something in 2015, Life Time Fitness is observing "Commitment Day," hoping to help people commit to something.
A Minnesota woman whose husband was the first American to die from Ebola hopes to see the deadly virus eradicated in 2015. In July, Decontee Kofa's husband, Patrick Sawyer, died of Ebola in Nigeria after traveling from his native Liberia, which has been hit hard by the disease.
Minnesota newlyweds Bri and Ryan Haagenson are kicking off the new year with a trip to Jamaica after winning a six-week fitness challenge. For the couple, getting fit was a part of the plan after they said "I do" on Sept. 12.
