Health/Medical

An effort is underway this week in Sioux Falls to help medical marijuana patients receive the certification they need in order to get the medication.

Whistleblowers say the Sioux Falls VA medical center had a hostile work environment

Exercising can lead to life long health benefits, but it can also lead to injury if you're not careful. Here's some tips and motivation to do the best, and safest, fitness you can.

”I was pretty panicked,” recalled Steven Denton, upon waking up in the hospital.

Monument Health wants to get the word out about organ donation as ‘Donate Life’ month begins.

Company to help South Dakota Department of Health monitor the flow of marijuana.

More than 2.5 million American teens use at least one kind of tobacco product.

As COVID-19 cases ease, the state cuts back on daily reporting.

Medical marijuana should soon be available in South Dakota as new laws are put into effect.

The ‘Calling Back Our Fathers’ event took place Thursday at the Ramkota Convention Center, and featured native art and clothing, along with guest speakers talking about the traditional role of Lakota fathers.

The political fight begins to save West River VA medical centers.

Report released Monday starts the process to possibly close Sturgis and Hot Springs VA medical centers.

Sleep studies have shown that people have increased issues with attention and focus in the days following the time change.

Initiated Measure 26 was passed by South Dakota voters in 2020, legalizing the production and use of medical marijuana in the state.

The bill is a compromise after the South Dakota House of Representatives passed a version of the bill that prohibited home cultivation entirely.

The South Dakota Medical Cannabis Program in Pierre conducted a lottery drawing Wednesday to determine which of the 47 applicants will receive the 15 licenses that the Rapid City Council gave the green light for last year.

President Biden nominates a career Indian Health Service staffer to be its next director.

SD House and Senate can't agree on a bill allowing vaccine exemptions.

COVID 19 decimates South Dakota nursing home staffs.

An VA systems overhaul was announced Friday and revealed a new, centralized hospital would be built in Rapid City to serve area veterans’ needs, but at the expense of two historic campuses in western South Dakota.

Bird flu found in chickens in southeastern South Dakota.

The Veterans Administration will release a list March 14 with the number of facilities that will possibly be closed or modernized. That includes the VA Black Hills Health Care campuses in Sturgis and Hot Springs.

While the South Dakota Legislature has approved a bill making it tougher to obtain abortion pills, the law is in limbo until the courts finish weighing in.

Orchard Meadows Family Dental's "Dentistry with Heart" program will offer free professional dental cleaning, filling or tooth extraction - no strings attached.

The CDC is changing its masking guidelines saying most people in the U.S. live in places where healthy people can safely take a break from wearing masks.

South Dakota lawmakers take another shot at reinstituting criminal charges for medical marijuana users who don't have a prescription.

In what Gov. Kristi Noem called an “unprecedented action,” a South Dakota House committee declined to introduce her “heartbeat bill.”

Gov Noem moves to ban most abortions.

South Dakota, as well as the federal government, has free at-home COVID-19 test kits available.

As students return from break and Covid cases on the rise