Secrets of the City » medicine http://www.secretsofthecity.com A Daily Digest of Twin Cities News, Arts and Culture Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:34:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mother, Son Miss Hearing In Chemo-Refusal Trial http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/mother-son-miss-hearing-in-chemo-refusal-trial http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/mother-son-miss-hearing-in-chemo-refusal-trial#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 19:28:56 +0000 Max Sparber From WCCO: 13-year-old Minnesota boy resisting chemotherapy for cancer has missed a court hearing on his welfare, and his father says the whereabouts of the boy and his mother are unknown.

MPR points out the similarities with the case of Chad Green, whose parents likewise refused chemo and fled to Tijuana, where the boy died at age 3.

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]]> http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/minnesota-health-plan/feed 9 An A to Z of what’s making us sick in Minnesota http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/an-a-to-z-of-whats-making-us-sick-in-minnesota http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/an-a-to-z-of-whats-making-us-sick-in-minnesota#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:24:03 +0000 Max Sparber MinnPost lets us know what is making us sick, including Cryptosporidiosis, which causes digestive distress, Legionellosis, which causes severe pneumonia, and Sexually transmitted diseases, which I think I get to much blame for.

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