Dené K. Dryden
@denekdryden.bsky.social
Health reporter for the Post Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota. On Signal at ddryden.80
PA asks CDC to recognize the four measles-associated death in its state. The CDC reports no deaths on its website. wjactv.com/news/local/p...
PA asks for help with measles outbreak if CDC recognizes 4 measles-related deaths: letter
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for help controlling the ongoing measles outbreak.
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The company, Precure, LLC, aims to use biospecimens, clinical data and AI to " help researchers identify early biological signals of disease."
Mayo Clinic, Thermo Fisher Scientific launch LLC focused on early disease research
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As a child, Rochester-raised Noah Billings found structure and meaning in triathlon. Now, he's just a few weeks away from competing in the world championship race in Spain.
As Team USA's first triathlete with an autism designation, Noah Billings prepares for the world championship
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A Rochester senator is urging Gov. Tim Walz and the state's commerce department to enforce a home care nursing law before 2027 plan rates are set.
Ahead of 2027 health plan deadline, Boldon continues push for home care nursing fix
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People are using AI to impersonate real science journalists. And one even got PUBLISHED. In Science. www.linkedin.com/posts/caroli...
Fake Caroline update: The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it! I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email…...
Fake Caroline update: The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it! I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email chai...
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Nearly 150 Allina hospital doctors walk off the job in historic 4-day strike in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/14/n...
Nearly 150 Allina hospital doctors walk off the job in historic 4-day strike in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Twin Cities area hospitals began a four-day strike on Monday in what’s believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history. Doctors ...
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Vyriad and Mayo Clinic are now enrolling patients in a clinical trial to test in vivo CAR-T therapy for #multiplemyeloma. Instead of taking T-cells from the patient's body and transforming them into CAR-T cells in a lab, this treatment creates the cancer-fighting CAR-T cells within the body.
Vyriad, Mayo Clinic begin clinical trial on new CAR-T treatment
Up to 40 patients with multiple myeloma will be enrolled in the Phase 1 clinical trial to test an emerging therapy: in vivo CAR-T.
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Mayo Clinic Laboratories to build $30 million testing facility in Mississippi www.postbulletin.com/health/mayo-...
Mayo Clinic Laboratories to build $30 million testing facility in Mississippi
The expansion is expected to create more than 230 jobs in the Southaven area.
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Rochester Mayor Kim Norton visited Riverside Elementary School Tuesday morning to see the Apple a Day program in action.
A gap program to feed Rochester students enters its third year
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Today I published the first installment of Deadly Divide, an investigation into Wisconsin's ongoing Black infant mortality crisis. A huge thank you to @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social for supporting this work with a national fellowship. Read it here: captimes.com/news/health/...
Wisconsin’s Black infant mortality crisis is harming generations
Wisconsin has one of the highest rates of Black babies dying before their first birthday. Neither family income nor education explains the disparity.
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Clinical trials, whether for new cancer treatments or simple lifestyle interventions, are based on foundational science and lots of planning.
In Southeast Minnesota, clinical trial participation plays a key role in advancing science
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More Americans are experiencing high blood pressure during their pregnancies. Two local OB-GYNs and a nurse midwife share how they help their patients with this diagnosis.
Hypertension in pregnancy is on the rise. Southeast Minnesota experts share risk factors, impact on care
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The Rochester Art Center is one of the latest venues for the national SPARK! program for people with memory loss and their caregivers.
A new Rochester program leans into art, the senses for those with memory loss
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United Therapeutics Corp.'s new $110 million “Designated Pathogen-Free” facility is completed in Stewartville’s Schumann Business Park and ready to start raising gene-edited pigs to provide transplant organs for humans.
Stewartville's xenotransplant pig facility is ready for animals
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New, from me: Mayo Clinic in Rochester will pay an employee $50K as the result of an EEOC lawsuit settlement (pending the judge's approval). The employee alleged that Mayo discriminated against him when it denied his religious exemption from Mayo's 2021 COVID-19 employee vaccine requirement.
Mayo Clinic, EEOC seek closure in employee's vaccine religious exemption case
Representatives for both parties filed a consent decree on Monday, Aug. 31, aiming to close a discrimination case involving Mayo Clinic's 2021 COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
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Representatives for both parties filed a consent decree on Monday, Aug. 31, aiming to close a discrimination case involving Mayo Clinic's 2021 COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
Mayo Clinic, EEOC seek closure in employee's vaccine religious exemption case
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A food-as-medicine demonstration was the latest monthly activity for the Rochester Art Center's SPARK! Memory Program, which debuted earlier this year. The big idea: give people with dementia and their caregivers an opportunity to learn, observe, create and share with others.
A new Rochester program leans into art, the senses for those with memory loss
The Rochester Art Center is one of the latest venues for the national SPARK! program for people with memory loss and their caregivers.
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A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital - including Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who worked for @apnews.com and others - no one has been held accountable Via Sam Mednick: apnews.com/article/isra...
A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital, no one has been held accountable
A year after Israeli strikes on a Gaza hospital killed 22 Palestinians, there are still major questions about the rationale for the attack.
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“The risk that we have right now in our country &in the Twin Cities specifically because of the things that have happened here in the last several years is that the helpers are tired and they also need help. We have to pay attention to the burnout of our teachers.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
'Unimaginably difficult': How Annunciation is rebuilding sense of safety at school after tragedy
School staff at Annunciation have spent the past year working to meet the needs of their students and their community. They say mental health support has been critical to healing.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited #RochesterMinnesota today to announce the development of the National Autism Missing and Endangered Person Alert Initiative. The initiative, with DOJ and FEMA, aims to strengthen local law enforcement responses when a child/adult with autism goes missing.
In Rochester, HHS Secretary Kennedy announces national safety initiative for autistic kids, adults
Federal officials made the announcement in Rochester after learning about local law enforcement's success in responding to missing persons cases involving adults and children with autism.
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Now: Awaiting a press conference with HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. here in Rochester, Minnesota. Won’t be live-posting but watch for a @postbulletin.bsky.social story here later today.
A majority of Olmsted County residents are in favor of restricting sales of flavored tobacco products, according to a recent poll. My latest here:
Poll shows majority of Olmsted County residents favor restriction on flavored tobacco
The poll, commissioned by the Love Your Lungs Olmsted campaign, asked respondents to weigh in on preventing youth tobacco use and their stance on a flavored tobacco sales prohibition.
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The health system's new chief information officer joined the institution in May.
Mayo Clinic hires Honeywell Aerospace alumnus as new CIO
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"We will be spending even more time with families, reinforcing that these are safe and healthy vaccines for kids." I spoke to Minnesota vaccination experts about last week's executive order — which, among other things, advocates for the MMR vaccine to be split into single-disease shots.
Last week's executive order on vaccines unlikely to change current practices, Minnesota experts say
Minnesota law still requires that children be vaccinated against certain diseases before enrolling in school or child care.
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If the criticism is "why don't journalists write about X?" the answers usually are: -a word count limit of 600 or less -a publishing quota deterring longer stories -an editor shot down the pitch or cut that detail or angle -a beat reporter was laid off -freelance rates of $250 to $350
This week, first-year students in the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine began their elective on street medicine, in which they learn how to care for unhoused patients out on the street, in a shelter or in other non-clinical settings. "We are working with an under-resourced population."
Mayo Clinic's street medicine students consider resources, flexibility in meeting unhoused patients' needs
Now in its sixth year, the street medicine mini-elective for first-year medical students began with a discussion on the lived experience of homelessness.
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The red van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize it across the Twin Cities. But the van, and everything inside it, is funded by federal grant money that has been suddenly revoked. https://bit.ly/4gbcGBn
“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”
Chipotle Pulled Jalapeños Tied to Minnesota Salmonella Cases
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.
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Mayo Clinic has asked a judge to dismiss a former employee's lawsuit, saying that the plaintiff's allegations "are vague generalizations and unsupported accusations." The lawsuit alleges Mayo retaliated against a research operations director after she reported #AI compliance concerns.
Mayo Clinic seeks to dismiss former employee's retaliation lawsuit
In a 33-page memorandum, lawyers for Mayo Clinic argued that Traci Tamiko Eto's allegations "are vague generalizations" and denied that Eto's claims are true.
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