Post Bulletin Reporter Dené Dryden

Dené K. Dryden

Health Reporter

Dené K. Dryden is the Post Bulletin's health reporter. She joined the 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 and Bluesky.

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LGBTQ+ people often face stigma at the doctor's office. In the realm of breast cancer care, Dr. Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake wants to make a difference with the Rainbows clinic.
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The test, which screens for DNA that is released when cancer cells die, is now one of multiple options for colorectal cancer screening.
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In total, Bill Reagan has devoted 300 billboards across the country to the memory of his wife, Julia Reagan, who was a longtime patient at Mayo Clinic in Rochester
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While the state of Minnesota and most of the U.S. is experiencing a summer COVID wave, the increase in people hospitalized with the disease is slight.
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The larynx, or voice box, transplant operation took 21 hours and is only the third surgery of its kind in the U.S. to date.
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The goal is to better guide research that looks at how chronic exposure to racism affects Black Americans' cardiovascular disease risk.
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Mayo Clinic's Dr. Jerry Brewer shares how to spot melanoma and reduce one's risk of developing skin cancer.
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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