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Audrey Saunders, 91, works out five times a week with Janice Johnson, a full-time trainer with Summerplace Assisted Living.

Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., at left, joins Sens. William Proxmire, D-Wisc. and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, at a 1981 House-Senate conference committee on an emergency spending bill.

Nursing students Cameron McGuire, left, and Heather Hedley re-enact a poverty simulation Thursday in Britt Hall at Southern Oregon University.

"I have never, ever made any threats to anyone at PSU," said Henry Liu in an exclusive interview with NewsChannel 8. The 33-year old, who studied conflict resolution, can't go back to school.

Sunlight and cigarettes aren't the only offenders capable of turning your mug into a catcher's mitt.

Tart cherries may help reduce chronic inflammation, especially for the millions of Americans suffering from debilitating joint pain and arthritis, according to new research from Oregon Health & Science University presented at the American College of Sports Medicine Conference in San Francisco, Calif.1 In fact, the researchers suggest tart cherries ... (more)

On the heels of a nearly $3 million verdict for a Portland-area couple whose baby was born with Down syndrome, another couple has filed a $6.25 million lawsuit claiming doctors conducting prenatal tests failed to detect a serious genetic disorder in their child.

Tuality Healthcare, western Washington County's leading health care provider, recently unveiled an advanced piece of equipment that puts it at the forefront of CT scanning procedures in the Pacific Northwest.

Tart cherries may help reduce chronic inflammation, especially for the millions of Americans suffering from debilitating joint pain and arthritis, according to new research from Oregon Health & Science University presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine Conference in San Francisco, Calif.1 In fact, the researchers suggest tart ... (more)

The University of Minnesota has named Leon Assael as dean of the School of Dentistry, the state's only dental school.

While vaccines are perhaps medicine's most important success story, there is always room for improvement.

Updated evidence on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women presents good news for those at risk of osteoporosis, but a mixed bag of results regarding breast cancer and other chronic diseases. While estrogen-only and estrogen-plus-progestin formulations reduce the risk of fractures, both increase the odds for stroke and other conditions including gallbladder disease, according to a new update of available evidence compiled for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent expert panel that is revising its guidelines.

Did you miss anything this week? Here's a chance to catch up with guest opinions from Washington County residents.

From The John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatrics , Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; Kuakini Medical Center , Honolulu, HI; the University of Virginia School of Medicine , Charlottesville, VA; the National Institute on Aging , Bethesda, MD; Oregon Health ... (more)

About 5 percent of Clark County sixth-graders have drank alcohol. But by the time those same kids reach eighth grade, that percentage jumps to 20 percent, according to the statewide Healthy Youth Survey.

Colton and Tiffany Allen play with their daughter, Etta, 3, last week in their Talent home.

Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Also Included In: Smoking / Quit Smoking ; Respiratory / Asthma ; Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 24 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT Vitamin C supplementation in pregnant women who are unable to quit smoking significantly improves pulmonary function in their newborns, according to a new study.

Pulmonary function of babies born to women who smoked during pregnancy was significantly improved if the women took vitamin C, U.S. researchers say.

Injecting an anti-convulsant drug into muscle is faster and possibly more effectively stops epileptic seizures than delivering a drug intravenously, according to a study conducted at Clackamas Fire District No.

ATS 2012, SAN FRANCISCO -Vitamin C supplementation in pregnant women who are unable to quit smoking significantly improves pulmonary function in their newborns, according to a new study.