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Global Health

University president finds her ER training handy in a turbulent time

Long before she became president of the University of Minnesota, Rebecca Cunningham trained in emergency medicine. She draws on that experience often these days. Cunningham, who is also a public health researcher, is just a year into steering a public university with five campuses and more than 70,000 students through a time of profound uncertainty.

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Heart Health

What Is Chronic Venous Insufficiency, President Trump’s New Diagnosis?

President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a common problem in older adults that happens when veins in the legs struggle to pump blood back to the heart. The president’s physician, Sean Barbabella, DO, said in a memo released by the White House that Trump, 79, underwent a comprehensive examination that revealed

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