Health

Benedict Khoo holding up a tick with greenery in the background

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Benedict Khoo: Targeting tickborne diseases

For Benedict Khoo, making a breakthrough discovery in health-related research doesn’t mean much if it can’t be put to use bettering people’s lives.

Four people with a harvest of food for the Nutritious U food pantry.

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The pantry in a time of pandemic

Boynton Health's Nutritious U food pantry is redoubling its efforts to meet the needs of students.

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Cory Anderson: Stalking a deer killer

As a lifelong hunter and an environmental health graduate student concentrating in infectious diseases, Cory Anderson harbors a passion both personal and professional when it comes to chronic wasting disease, or CWD.

Talking with U of M

Talking ovarian cancer with U of M

Approximately 10 percent of the women in Minnesota have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and U of M Medical School expert Colleen Rivard, MD, is answering questions about the subtle signs and risk factors.

Woman drinking coffee and reading newspaper

Research Brief

Prior exposure to conflicting health information reduces people’s receptivity to messages about widely recommended health behaviors

University of Minnesota researchers are finding that prior exposure to conflicting health information reduces receptivity to messages about widely-recommended health behaviors.