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Legislature 2015: Here are the health bills that are alive and kicking and others that croaked

by Hillary Regan | Apr 23, 2015 | Learn

Read about them here.

Friday Forum: Epigenetics and Equity: The health and social impacts of racism and inequality

by Hillary Regan | Apr 17, 2015 | Events, Events from selected partners

Friday April 24th  12:15pm – 1:15pm (doors open at 11:30am) Sentinel, 614 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR  Oregon Health and Science University runs the world’s leading center of study on a new area of science that shows how certain lifetime stresses create...

Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does

by Hillary Regan | Apr 15, 2015 | Learn

For many years, researchers speculated that what they couldn’t explain about disparities must be the fingerprint of some mysterious genetic component. But since they are now able to scan the entire genome, this speculation appears both lazy and wrong. When it comes to...

New Study Finds Disparities in Coverage, Access to Care Among Four Largest States

by Hillary Regan | Apr 10, 2015 | Learn

A new Commonwealth Fund study suggests that some of the differences in insurance coverage rates and affordability of care among the nation’s four largest states may be attributable to health insurance policies in these states before and after the Affordable Care Act...

Women Having A Heart Attack Don’t Get Treatment Fast Enough

by Hillary Regan | Apr 6, 2015 | Learn

­ Each year more than 15,000 women under the age of 55 die of heart disease in the United States. And younger women are twice as likely to die after being hospitalized for a heart attack as are men in the same age group. Studies show that women tend to wait much...
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