Governor Tim Walz is expressing openness to a proposed merger between Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and Sioux Falls-based Sanford Health. The news shows a more receptive political climate for the nonprofits that initially tried to combine nearly a decade ago.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Many doctors worry that the drugs' current popularity, fueled in part by social media, has resulted in people taking them without sufficient medical supervision.