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[KMSP-TV Fox 9 News, Sept. 16, 2009]

We are heading into flu season and the Centers for Disease Control already saying it's widespread in Minnesota. But, hospitals and clinics are asking some people who sick not to get checked out.

Lynn Berg, who heads up Allina Medical Clinics knows it goes against common sense. So there are key triggers to see a doctor.

It toook a crance and a large hatch cut into St. Paul's United Hospital to install a new MRI machine today. WCCO's Dennis Douda reports.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A cancer patient traveling through the Twin Cities ends up having a life saving surgery. FOX 9's Maury Glover tells us her remarkable story.

A hospital room in south Minneapolis seems a long way from where Kenneth Bartell was staying less than 24 hours ago.

"It's very good here. I've slept some," says Kenneth. "I'm feeling better."

Bartell is one of about 200 Fargo MeritCare hospital patients evacuated from their hospital rooms in the middle of the night. The rising Red River was just too close to take any chances.

Kenneth was put on a charter bus to Minneapolis. By early morning, 45 patients had been checked in at Abbott Northwestern. A hosp

MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minneapolis hospital is caring for its fifth set of quintuplets in the last eight years.

Angela Tilles of Wisconsin gave birth to one boy and four girls at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Friday.

Doctors say the newborns are healthy and are expected to remain hospitalized for seven to eight weeks.

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