Wellness

Lois Crenshaw, an AIDS activist, former Chicago police officer, and Minneapolis resident, is one of the estimated 1,367 Minnesota women living with HIV, who represent 23% of all cases of HIV or AIDS in Minnesota. Crenshaw contracted HIV when a man raped her while she was on vacation in the Bahamas in 1994. MORE »

A recent report by the Minnesota Department of Health, the “HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report” says that the number of new HIV infections has increased among all state demographics including African-born immigrants. MORE »

There’s a famous “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucille Ball is working in a candy factory. Her job is to grab and wrap each candy piece as it goes by on a conveyer belt, but Lucy just can’t keep up. The candies go by faster and faster, and she eats some, wraps some and drops some. This is what it’s like on the job daily for hospital nurses, Linda Slattengren, president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, told the House Health and Human Services Committee April 22. MORE »

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth is the latest in the series of books by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective providing information about women’s health and sexuality. This book examines childbearing in depth, provides up-to-date medical information about birth in the United States today, and includes additional recommended resources for readers. MORE »