Health News for Dunn County, WI

FILE - A car enters the drive at Day Kimball Hospital, July 18, 2022 in Putnam, Conn. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)

Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans' $1 trillion Medicaid cut

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Stepping Stones Hosts 4th Annual bEAT Concert Fundraising Event

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DHS Celebrates 15th Anniversary of Wisconsin's Smoke-Free Indoor Air Law

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin lawmakers rush to pass budget deal to help hospitals

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Stepping Stones changes food pantry hours

Janith Farnham signs "water" while she and her daughter, Jacque, look at an artwork of a waterfall at the Visual Arts Center at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, S.D., on May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families

FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. (CDC via AP, File)

How to protect yourself from ticks year-round

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Dunn County Health Department Launches Lead Screening Tests for Children

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The Importance of Local Land and Water Conservation Departments

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt does a television interview at the White House, Monday, June 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: 10.9 million more people projected to lose insurance in 2034 from GOP tax bill cuts

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Dunn County Health Department Supported by Community Foundation

Sen. Ron Johnson at the Newsroom Pub on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | Photo by Ruth Conniff/Wisconsin Examiner

The baffling B.S. of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson

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FDA will approve COVID-19 vaccine only for older adults and high-risk groups – a public health expert explains the new rules

FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

After a political career shaped by cancer, Biden faces his own grim diagnosis

President Donald Trump listens as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks as he signs executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, listens at left. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump administration again blocked from cutting billions in federal health money

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Healthy Environments Action Team: Climate Change Initiative

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care

FILE - This 2009 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a large group of Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium bacteria that had been isolated from a pure culture. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File)

New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

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