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Post Bulletin Reporter Dené K. Dryden

Dené K. Dryden

Health Reporter

Dené K. Dryden is the Post Bulletin's health reporter. She joined the Post Bulletin newsroom in 2022.

Dené is professionally associated with the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

She is the second place recipient of the Minnesota Newspaper Association's 2023 Dave Pyle New Journalist Award.

Dené received a bachelor's degree in English creative writing from Kansas State University and is a proud alumna of K-State's student newspaper and radio station.

A farm kid at heart, Dené loves to get outdoors to hike and look for cool bugs.

Readers can reach Dené at 507-281-7488 and ddryden@postbulletin.com. She's also on Threads.

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The John E. Herman Home and Treatment Facility, located on 14th Ave. SW across from the Saint Marys hospital campus, had been closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Minnesota Department of Health released data on adverse health events, which include falls, bedsores and medication errors, that happened in Minnesota's hospitals in 2023
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Since 1996, the state of Minnesota has lost nearly 400 independent community pharmacies. While the Legislature just passed new laws to help, a national financial problem persists.
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State lawmakers passed the End-of-Life Option Act through several House committees this session, but the measure ultimately did not make it to Gov. Tim Walz's desk
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Ludwig van Beethoven, the famous German composer who died in 1827, had a dying wish to have his symptoms understood. Now, with the help of a Mayo Clinic lab, researchers know what likely caused his health issues.
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The protest, scheduled for the first day of National Nurses Week, will be silent "to emphasize that no matter how much nurses ask, beg, petition or yell, nobody seems to take action."
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About 5% of Mayo Clinic's Rochester employees already belong to a union, according to a local organizer. If Mayo's registered nurses successfully unionize, there are "likely to be significant impacts."
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Prediabetes, which can progress to Type 2 diabetes, often does not have symptoms. But it does have an impact on the body, say two Rochester physicians, and it can be reversed.
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As many states enforce laws that restrict or ban gender-affirming care, particularly for youth, providers in Minnesota are facing higher patient loads. The downstream effect: longer wait times for patients
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Aiming to grow the state's workforce, legislators are trying to advance bills simplifying the licensing process for nurses, dentists, speech-language pathologists and others coming to Minnesota
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