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This initiative was inspired by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa becoming the first tribe in the country to add organ donation registration to their tribal identification documents in 2022.
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Public Health Division Director Dirk Wilke says the plan identifies health priorities that will be used as a framework for HHS’s goals, objectives, and activities.
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Flu shots are widely available across North Dakota.
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UND researcher Ursula Running Bear, Ph.D., has explored the health problems experienced by Native Americans who were sent away to boarding schools as children. She found that the attendees were much more likely to develop cancers, anemia, arthritis and gallbladder disease.
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Cases remain nearly level to what was reported last week.
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Friday, September 16, 2022 - “Who Cares: A Nurse's Fight for Equity” features Whitney Fear, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where she, her family and other members of the Oglala Lakota Nation struggled to survive. It was filmed in Fargo and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Whitney joins us to discuss the issues raised in the film.
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Overall officially confirmed cases continue a slightly downward trend.
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A man walks into a bar... with a rabid raccoon.
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Cases and hospitalizations are trending slightly downward.
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Trinity Health is partnering with Orexo to provide digital therapeutics to Trinity Health patients.
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Roughly the same amount of cases were confirmed last week.
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As students head back to school, the North Dakota Department of Health is working with colleges to stop the spread of monkeypox.