With the nation still split over President Barack Obama's health care law, the administration has turned to the science of mass marketing for help in understanding the lives of uninsured people, hoping to craft winning pitches for a surprisingly varied group in society.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson that uses a new method to lower blood sugar — flushing it out in patients' urine.
Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.
A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer, scientists reported Wednesday.
Medical claims costs are the biggest driver of health insurance premiums. The Society of Actuaries estimates that costs will rise nationally by an average of 32 percent under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later on.
Dr. Andrew Harris will be in Roseburg to talk about climate change and health on April 1 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon Health and Science University is contacting more than 4,000 patients after a laptop containing some of their personal information was stolen from a surgeon’s laptop computer at vacation rental home in Hawaii last month.
Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels.
Latina women are taking longer than white women to be diagnosed with breast cancer, putting their lives at risk.
Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels.
Oregon's timber counties tend to be less healthy than other rural and urban parts of the state, according to nationwide rankings released this week.
When some people think of a fitness competition, they think of large men pushing their bodies to the brink. But at the Roseburg Crossfit, many of the competitors taking part in the Crossfit Games are women.
Oregon lawmakers heard testimony Thursday on several bills to require labels on genetically modified food and prohibit importing genetically modified fish.
The results are in, and although the health of Douglas County is better this year, a report says the county is still near the bottom of the list.
Marketing plan devised to sell Americans on health reform
