Dr. Laurel Case grew up in rural Little River, Kansas. After high school, he attended Hutchinson Junior College and Baker University before joining the U.S. Navy Medical [...]

The rising cost of health care both influences and underscores the need to better develop and implement evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based medicine helps ensure hea [...]

Impact of a prescription drug copayment policy on prescription drug and health services utilization in an Oregon Medicaid population. Health care costs associated with th [...]

Substance use is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States and has created a great deal of hardship on the nation's economy and the health of its citizens; this [...]

March 2014 issue of the Scribe. Contents include health care costs, care for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, health studies, physician staffing, results tracking and re [...]

Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have greatly reduced life expectancies in comparison with the general population, with much of the excess mortality attributa [...]

Lynn Loriaux, M.D., Ph.D. joined the faculty OHSU in 1990, serving as head of endocrinology. In 1994, he become chair of the Department of Medicine and remained in the ro [...]

In the United States about half a million people develop peptic ulcer each year, and the health care costs of this disease amounts to an estimated value of $10 billion an [...]