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skeeze/PixabayRoughly 35,000 people get organ transplants every year in the United States. Which sounds like a big number, until you look at the one next to it: 115,000鈥� -
Public Domain, WikimediaThink about the supplies needed in a medical training facility: bandages, stethoscopes, defibrillators, makeup. Makeup? True... before health workers鈥�
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Notice all the colored folders next time you're at the doctor's office; many medical records are still stored on paper. But the industry has been pushing鈥� -
We argue A LOT about health care and its cost in our country. But we also do not have some of the problems with health experienced in the rest of the鈥� -
Three-day weekends are rare for the Exchange staff in the first half of the year. So you'll excuse us for leaving a couple of reruns in the jukebox for鈥� -
A friend collapses, complaining of chest pain. You reach for the phone, call 911, and activate an app that finds people nearby who know CPR. This is not鈥� -
"You should see a doctor," people say when you're having health issues. That phrase has taken on new dimensions in the age of almost-universal health鈥� -
It's a lot easier to say the acronym "STEMI" than to pronounce what it stands for: ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.It's the most severe kind of heart鈥� -
Oregon began putting its own spin on providing health care to the public even before the Affordable Care Act--"Obamacare"--took effect. The work of the鈥� -
The term "patient-centered medical home" probably conjures up a number of images and ideas. It is not a home you LIVE in, but a home base of sorts, a鈥� -
Oregon's 2008 Medicaid (Oregon Health Plan) expansion offered a gift to health researchers. Since people either got Medicaid coverage or didn't by鈥� -
Medical marijuana dispensaries will begin showing up in Oregon in the near future, thanks to a law passed by the state legislature this year. The Medford鈥� -
Given the earlier fights, it was probably predictable that the days leading up to the activation of the federal Affordable Care Act--"Obamacare"--would be鈥� -
While we argue about insurance and payments, medical science continues to advance into the future.Genetic testing is now available to patients in the鈥�
