March 30, 2001 - Attorney General Mike Hatch and Allina CEO Gordon Sprenger announced a deal to renew an audit of the health provider's business practices. Last week, Hatch questioned Allina's administrative costs and the company's spending on executive perks. Hatch also claimed the non-profit was delaying the release of important documents. Both sides say the new agreement should expedite the review. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo has more.
March 30, 2001 - Tests on two North Carolina pigs supsected of having Foot and Mouth Disease came up negative today. Minnesota State Veternarian Tom Hagerty says chances are very low that a Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak could occur in the U-S. Hagerty is just back from a meeting with other state veternarians and U-S agriculture officials in Washington D.C. He says the meeting was helpful for establishing a federal strategy for containing any U-S cases of Foot and Mouth:
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April 2, 2001 - When the draft was abolished in 1973, *the decision affected not only the country's military*, it also did away with a primary source of *recruits* for the Indian Health Service . Medical students or Interns facing the draft had the option of serving their time in the Commission Service Corp. To help fill that void the University of North Dakota's Medical school developed the Indians into Medicine or INMED program. Nearly 30 years later, the program is still recruiting and producing health care professionals. Mainstreet Radio's Bob Reha reports.
April 2, 2001 - Agriculture students were quarantined because of the Foot and Mouth outbreak.
April 3, 2001 - Americans think that child pornography is the biggest problem on the internet. Child pornographers are coming out of the dark corners of the world and they are congregating on the internet.
April 3, 2001 - Private providers of family planning services today (TUESDAY) said they could lose signficant funding if legislation approved by a key House committee becomes law. Last week, the Health and Human Services committee voted to shift state family planning grants from non-profit groups to cities and counties. Opponents say the move is a veiled attack on groups that provide abortions. But supporters say the switch simply gives taxpayers oversight into how the money is used. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports. {NARRATION: The state health department estimates private family planning groups currently receive roughly 3 million dollars a year in state grants. But amendments tacked onto the omnibus health care financing bill would strip those funds from private non-profits and pass them to local governments to provide the same services. Ray Martin is the director of Healthy Start, an adolescent health care organization which receives a yearly 100-thousand dollar grant. He says continuing the funding for non-profit providers will pay off in the long run.
April 3, 2001 - The Minnesota Department of Agriculture announced today it has formed an inter-agency task force to coordinate state and federal efforts to prevent Mad Cow Disease. The highly contagious disease, which is also called BSE, wastes the brains of cattle and can be transfered to humans. The state agriculture department's Meat Inspection supervisor Kevin Elfering says Minnesota has ALREADY been taking precautions to make sure the disease doesn't infect the state's livestock:
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