Regence Members in Oregon Can Now Access Provider Cost Information
Health insurer enhances Treatment Cost Estimator tool allowing members to forecast out-of-pocket costs for select provider services PORTLAND, Ore., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowing and understanding the cost of a medical procedure before it takes place helps people to be more than health care...Health Groups Launch Ad Campaign Highlighting Benefits of Increase in Oregon Cigarette Tax
60-cent Increase Would Reduce Smoking, Save Lives, and Raise New Revenue for Tobacco Prevention SALEM, Ore., April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of public health organizations has launched a newspaper advertising campaign highlighting the benefits of a 60-cent increase in Oregon's...Covanta Marion Recognized for Health and Safety by Oregon OSHA
Facility Earns OSHA VPP "STAR" Designation BROOKS, Ore., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Covanta Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA ) and a world leader in the development and operation of large scale Energy-from-Waste and other renewable energy projects, t...Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Oregon Get $10K Regence Grant
Award supports healthy lifestyle programs and incentives PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon announced today it awarded a $10,000 grant to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Oregon. The grant will support the Clubs' programs that help kids develop h...Despite Economy, Oregon Wine Benefit !Salud! Raises Over $735,000
Oregon wineries auction special Pinot Noirs to benefit healthcare services for seasonal vineyard workers and their families. In addition to supporting this cause for 17 years, producers preview outstanding 2007 vintage. Portland, OR (PRWEB) November 26, 2008 -- Patron...Sherwood, Oregon Sailor, 78, Goes on Final Voyage
April 27 minor surgery reveals inoperable pancreatic and spinal cancer SHERWOOD, Ore., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Who: Hennie Page had finally settled into a quiet life at Avamere at Sherwood in Oregon. The South African native enjoys looking at his paintings and frequent visits from his daught...Message to Oregon Residents: Forgo Fad Dieting and Join the Campaign for Healthy Weight
Campaign to Visit Portland to Rally Residents to Eat Right, Move More and Milk Their Diets PORTLAND, Ore., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The last decade can be defined by the ups and downs of different fad diets -- which seem to go in and out of fashion like shoulder pads an...DNA Find in Oregon Is Oldest Yet Discovered in Americas
Paisley Caves reveal genetic material in excrement linking New World to Siberia, East Asia THURSDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- The oldest human DNA ever found in the Americas appears to show genetic links to Siberia or East Asia, according to an international team of scientists. ...Results From Trials of DHA in Alzheimer's Disease and Age-Related Cognitive Decline
...National Institute on Aging (NIA)-supported Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), led by Joseph Quinn, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at oregon Health and Sciences University, conducted a double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial comparing DHA and placebo in 402 people (avera...Gaining Too Much Weight During Pregnancy Nearly Doubles Risk of Having a Heavy Baby
...land; Mark M. Schmidt, BA, and Judith A. Mullen, APRN, from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Hawaii; Erin S. LeBlanc, MD, MPH, from oregon Health & Science University; and David J. Pettitt, MD, from the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif. About the Kaiser Permane...Behavioral Modification Programs Help Obese Children Manage Their Weight
...gain weight more slowly as they grow or, where appropriate, lose weight," said Evelyn Whitlock, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director of the AHRQ-supported oregon Evidence-based Practice Center at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in Portland that produced the report. In a study of one high-intens...Oregon Tourism Commission Unveils New Online Customer Service Training Program
... SALEM, Ore., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The oregon Tourism Commission launched its new free online Qu...Care) this week on http://www.OregonQCare.com . oregon Q Care is a training program created to support th...how likely they will be to return as a result. The oregon Q Care program raises the bar on the level of cust...CMV Disease in Stem Cell Transplantation: Prevention and Drug Resistance
...om the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington and Sunwen Chou, MD, from the oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. Healthcare professionals can download a copy of this self-study activity by visiting: http://www.R...Groundbreaking American Journal of Play from Strong National Museum of Play(R) Premiers July 2008
...g They Are Real but Knowing They Are Not by Marjorie Taylor and Candice M. Mottweiler. Marjorie Taylor is professor of psychology at the University of oregon and author of Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them. -- Play in America from Pilgrims and Patriots to Kid Jocks and Joystick Jocke...Task Force Recommends Screening for Hearing Loss in All Newborns
...ices. The Task Force based its conclusions on a report from a research team led by Heidi Nelson, M.D., at AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Center at the oregon Health & Science University in Portland. The recommendations and materials for clinicians are available on the AHRQ Web site at http://www.ahrq.gov...Forest inventories in Oregon include more than trees
PORTLAND, Ore. December 3, 2008. The first 5-year forest inventory report for Oregon's private and public lands is now available to the public: Oregon's Forest Resources, 2001-2005: Five-Year Forest Inventory and Analysis Report. Here are some key findings from the report: Oregon's forests ...University of Oregon researcher finds that on water's surface, nitric acid is not so tough
EUGENE, Ore.(Aug. 20, 2007)Nitric acid is a notoriously strong and chemically destructive compound found in water on earth and in our atmosphere. However, a team of researchers have found that its punch is much weaker when it sits on the top of a water surface. The discovery of the weaker and m...Northwest climate change is target of $3.2M in grants to University of Oregon
Climate change in the Northwest is the focus of two federal grants totaling $3.2 million awarded to two University of Oregon researchers. They will work together on a pair of multi-site projects designed to help enhance biodiversity while protecting people and property from wildfires in the face o...Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading
A hypoxic "dead zone" has formed off the Oregon Coast for the fifth time in five years, according to researchers at Oregon State University. A fundamental new trend in atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns in the Pacific Northwest appears to have begun, scientists say, and apparently is expa...Symposium to discuss geoengineering to fight climate change at the ESA Annual Meeting
...es." Another large-scale geoengineering scheme is fertilizing the oceans with iron to increase carbon uptake from the atmosphere. Charles Miller of oregon State University says that ocean fertilization could create a rise in iron-limited phytoplankton populations, which by dying and sinking would use eno...Family planning a major environmental impact
...ootprint" on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit have one less child. A study by statisticians at oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important ...Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
...rings of geoducks and Douglas-firs, for example the reliability of the data increases significantly, according to Bryan Black, a dendrochonologist at oregon State University. Black has been applying tree-ring techniques to the growth increments of long-lived marine and freshwater species. "When we assoc...New windows opened on cell-to-cell interactions
...ll-to-cell interaction. Two recently published papers by a University of oregon biophysicist and colleagues suggest that putting lipids and other cell memb...UO's Material Science Institute, the Institute of Molecular Biology and the oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI). (Parthasarathy disc...Tires made from trees -- better, cheaper, more fuel efficient
... driving on tires that are partly made out of trees which could cost less, perform better and save on fuel and energy. Wood science researchers at oregon State University have made some surprising findings about the potential of microcrystalline cellulose a product that can be made easily from almost a...Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case
...hat very few natural areas now bear much resemblance to their native conditions," said William Ripple, a professor of forest ecosystems and society at oregon State University, and one of the world's leading experts in the study of the interaction of grazing ungulates and large predators. "There's an incr...Assured Pharmacy Consolidates Portland, Oregon Pharmacy
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Assured Pharmacy, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: APHY) today announced it has consolidated the operation of its pharmacy located at 3822 S.E. Powell Blvd in Portland, Oregon. This pharmacy was opened under previous management, and is being consolida...Phlo Affiliate Reports Expanded Coverage to Oregon Border
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- An affiliate of Phlo Corporation (OTC: PHLC) (the "Company") announced today that the distribution of AQUISS(TM) in California has now been expanded to the San Francisco and Napa/Sonoma regions. The additional territories are expansive, inc...Revolutionary New In-Office EVOLVE(R) Laser Prostate Treatment Available Throughout Western Oregon
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Men living in Western Oregon who suffer from the symptoms associated with an enlarged prostate now have the option of out-patient, in-office treatment to cure the problem. biolitec, Inc. is pleased to announce that a network of doctors in Western...NameProtect partners with Oregon firm to boost fraud detection
Madison, Wis. - NameProtect , a Madison-based supplier of online security and brand protection solutions, announced on Wednesday it has entered a partnership with Corillian Corp. , an online banking security headquartered in the state of Oregon. The companies will jointly market the Corillia...Synthetech Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results
...ail: investor@synthetech.com CONTACT: Gary Weber, CFO PO Box 646 Albany, oregon 97321 541 967-6575 ...Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
... University of oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punc...investigator Hailin Wang. Wang, a member of the oregon Center for Optics and a professor in the UO physic...oundation and Army Research Laboratory through the oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI...Assessment of safety and efficacy of human embryonic stem cell therapy
...ion and tested for safety and efficacy in several different in vitro and animal models in collaboration with researchers at the Casey Eye Institute at oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) headed by Dr. Raymond Lund. Dr. Lund, co-senior author of the paper, is widely considered one of the world's for...Providence Health & Services Increases Revenue by $35 Million Using Concuity ClearContracts
...s of communities across five states, including Alaska, Washington, Montana, oregon and California. Providence continues the legacy of the Sisters of Providen...ther health, housing and education services in Alaska, Washington, Montana, oregon and California. The corporate headquarters is in Renton, Wash. Trint...OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals to Webcast ASCO Reception on May 30, 2009
...011 Principal Investigator, BC Cancer Agency Dr. Oliver Sartor, Medical Oncologist, Tulane Medical School Dr. Tomasz Beer, Medical Oncologist, oregon Health & Science University Dr. Brent Blumenstein, Independent Statistician, Trial Architecture Consulting Dr. Martin Gleave, Distingu...