First Lady Mikey Hoeven will be co-hosting the 2008 Women’s Health Summit on Oct. 6, along with North Dakotans Partnering For Women’s Health.  Read more about it here.

According to this Public News Service article, North Dakota is working to address a health care worker shortage.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given a $1.2 million grant to University of ND to fund Area Health Care Education Centers to help train new healthcare workers in local communities. What a great [...]

A recent Hantavirus death in Hettinger, North Dakota has somewhat unnerved me.  Hantavirus is a respiratory disease carried by mice and other rodents.  Humans can catch it when rodent urine or feces are disturbed and the virus gets into the air, although I understand that it isn’t transmitted between humans. I remember this being prevalent [...]