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[WCCO-TV, May 10, 2016]   Folks are doing it at home and at work. Every Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m., a group of Allina Health employees meet in a conference room to meditate.
May 10, 2016
[KSTP TV, May 05, 2016]   Overdoses from painkillers and heroin are just about as deadly as car crashes in Minnesota. Last year, 336 deaths were linked to the use of opioids or heroin.
May 05, 2016
[Twelve News, April 19, 2016]   Minneapolis resident Kaylee Arostegui is an active woman who works out five to six times a week. Next week, she'll have surgery on her foot.
April 19, 2016
[KARE-TV, February 22, 2016]   A new study says as much as 90 percent of the lifetime risk of developing cancer can be blamed on things like environment, smoking, drinking, diet and tanning. Dr. Courtney Baechler from the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern talked with KARE11-TV about how big of a role lifestyle plays in our health, and if there is anything we can do to reverse poor choices.
February 22, 2016
[Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, January 01, 0001]   For anyone who has intersected with the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Allina Health , the nation’s largest hospital-based integrative medicine center, and wondered if it was started by a guy with the last name of Penny and another guy with the last name of George: Nope. Penny George is one real, living person—and one who has helped change health care in our time.
December 28, 2015
[KARE-TV, October 06, 2015]   Penny George is a respected leader in the national movement to transform medicine and health care through the principles and practices of integrative medicine. She is co-founder of the Penny George™ Institute for Health and Healing , part of Allina Health — the largest hospital-based integrative medicine program based in a health system in the country.
October 07, 2015
[WCCO-AM, October 04, 2015]   On Oct. 9 in Minneapolis, Minnesotan Penny George, Cleveland Clinic’s Mark Hyman, and Georgetown Medical School’s Jim Gordon will share how they and other leading change agents are Transforming Medicine.
October 04, 2015
[Star Tribune, August 26, 2015]   Prescription pain pill abuse isn’t one of the lighter topics Gov. Mark Dayton has talked about this year.
August 26, 2015
[KARE-TV, June 16, 2015]   A lot of people use yoga to stay in shape, but there is another use for it many people may not know much about. It's helping 60-year-old Steve Stoner of Hugo.
June 18, 2015
[KARE-TV, March 20, 2015]   Mental wellness is a top public health priority and to help address the issue, Allina Health has a free online resource for teens called Change to Chill™ . This month, Change to Chi ll is launching the Chiller Challenge – a contest that invites teens to create Chillers for the website.
March 27, 2015