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The Graying of AIDS: a Web Documentary turned into an Awareness Campaign

By 2015 more than half of all people living with HIV in the US will be over 50.

How Seattle helps with world's water challenges

We may have plenty of clean water for our own needs, but if anything that has only spurred more interest in helping the rest of the world.

Los Angeles neighborhood bears the brunt of air pollution

As summer temperatures rise, so do fears of asthma and other illnesses caused by all the air pollution converging on the east Los Angeles community of Boyle Heights. With its proximity to freeways, industrial sites and shipping corridors, activists say the geography of Boyle Heights brings a disproportionate health burden to residents.

Ageless Fitness

RNs accept ABC's Revolution challenge & lose, lose, lose!

Out of This World

A reflection story written about Jasper, an unforgettable patient I met when I was a third year medical student on a rural rotation. An intricate tale of Jasper's plight, his family's challenges around his end-of-life care, a personal connection to my father's death, and a discussion on our role as health care providers.

Dirty Crude Spells Dirty Air in California

California's long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new problem: its oil refineries now produce more greenhouse gas emissions than refineries anywhere else in the country.

Antibiotic Stewardship in the U.S. Woefully Weak, Experts At Global Conference Say

A confluence of factors including an inflexible regulatory enviroment that discourages research and discovery, a paltry research pipeline for drugs for the most serious illnesses, and a tendency for physicians to unnecessarily prescribe antibiotics for routine aches and pains is largely responsible for the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections in humans, speakers at a major conference on infectious diseases this week announced.

Oregon behind on data transparency

Oregon, typically a progressive state, releases much less data about the quality and safety of its hospitals in at least one important database.

Measuring patient safety

Five prominent Oregon hospitals do worse than the national average on a key measure of patient safety.

Medical harm

Each year thousands of patients are harmed by medical care in Oregon. A Bend woman, Mary Parker, was one.

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