Ardian Inc. is a startup based in Mountain View, California. Yet its technology, a catheter-based treatment for hypertension, was created by Minnesota entrepreneurs, funded by a Minnesota venture capital firm, tested by a Minnesota hospital, and recently bought by a Minnesota medical device company for at least $800 million. Are you as disturbed about this as I am?

The University of Minnesota’s medical school said Monday it has won a $100,000 federal contract to help diagnose and treat pregnant and postpartum women suffering from depression.

As nurses and Twin Cities hospitals resume contract negotiations today, Moody’s Investor Service lobbed in one more thing for both sides to think about.The company warned Monday that an open-ended strike by 12,000 nurses belonging to the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) could damage the hospitals credit rating, making it harder and more expensive for hospitals [...]

Donning bright red, union T-shirts and waving “We care for you” signs, 12,000 Minnesota nurses walked off the job Thursday.Unable to reach a contract with six metro hospital chains, the Minnesota Nurses Association launched a 24-hour strike, the largest in the history of the United States.Nurses are seeking a 3 percent annual pay raise and [...]

Excelen, a nonprofit orthopedic research and education foundation, will raise $12 million over three years to establish a downtown Minneapolis incubator and early-stage seed fund to back promising orthopedic start-ups.The incubator will be located at Excelen’s headquarters near Hennepin County Medical Center and the Metrodome, where it already operates laboratories and research facilities. Prominent orthopedic [...]

Drug companies face bills that require disclosure of industry payments to doctors and funding for medication waste disposal.