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Health care may become more accessible Nurse Practitioner Kerry Mawdsley listens to the chest of Oneida Clawson, 64, who is uninsured, at St. Charles Immediate Care on Wednesday.
Access issues Physician Hospital Alignment officials asked Central Oregon’s larger primary care practices if they would take new uninsured or Oregon Health Plan patients. Clinic
OHP
Bend Memorial Clinic
No
Yes*
High Lakes Health Care
No
Yes*
Fall Creek
No
No
Mosaic Medical
Yes
No
Cascade Medical Clinic
No
No
Cascade Internal Medicine
No
No
Yes
Yes*
Central Oregon Pediatric Associates
Ryan Brennecke The Bulletin
Source: Physician Hospital Alignment
Findings offer hope for earlier detection of pancreatic cancer Cells capable of metastasizing emerge years after a tumor forms
Uninsured
*Require partial payment before treatment
New St. Charles system would cover treatment for OHP, Medicare and uninsured patients By Markian Hawryluk The Bulletin
Access to health care for Oregon Health Plan, Medicare and uninsured patients could increase dramatically in the coming year if the St. Charles Health System succeeds in creating a new integrated health care delivery system. The hospital system has developed a model for health care delivery in the region that would integrate its employed and affiliated doctors into a
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Where Wyden, Huffman stand A review of Senate candidates’ positions on key issues
By Nicholas Wade
By Keith Chu
New York Times News Service
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Researchers have made significant progress in understanding the biology of pancreatic tumors, suggesting that there may be ways of identifying the usually fatal cancer at a much earlier and more treatable stage. A principal finding is that pancreatic tumors are not aggressive. They grow slowly, taking an average of 21 years to become fatal. This creates an opportunity for detecting and removing the cancers at an early stage. At present they are diagnosed far too late, when a patient has on average only two more years to live and the cancer has already spread to other tissues. The advances, reported online Wednesday in Nature, have been made by two cooperating groups, one led by Shinichi Yachida and Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, and the other by Peter Campbell and Andrew Futreal at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, England.
WASHINGTON — Less than a week remains before Oregon ballots must be returned and politicians continue to spin their positions on important issues. Here’s a rundown on where the candidates stand in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democrat Ron Wyden and Republican challenger Jim Huffman. Responses are drawn from votes, candidate statements, an
More election news • Jason Conger holds onto fundraising lead in House District 54 race, Page C1 interview with Huffman last week and answers provided by Wyden’s campaign, after they said Wyden didn’t have time for an interview last week or on Monday.
TOP NEWS INSIDE SPAIN: Many property owners face a foreclosure nightmare, Page A3
Man convicted in random assault on Bend woman may be released Weinman, found guilty but insane, could be moved to housing facility
Bailouts and stimulus
By Erin Golden
It all depends on how you define a bailout. Wyden twice voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program that infused Wall Street banks and financial firms with federal money. He voted for the stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which cost $787 billion, according to the White House, or $862 billion by Republicans’ accounting. See Senate / A5
A Bend man convicted of attempted murder in the July 2007 beating of a young woman near Drake Park could soon be released to a housing facility in Bend, a move the victim’s family plans to fight. In 2008, a Deschutes County Circuit Court judge found Jeffrey Richard Weinman guilty but insane for his random, midday attack on 22-year-old Meredith Graham at the corner of Northwest Nashville Avenue and Northwest Harmon Boulevard in Bend. At Weinman’s trial, witnesses said he ran at Graham, screaming, and began punching her. When Graham fell to the sidewalk, Weinman kicked her and then kneeled down and continued punching her until a passer-by pulled him away. Graham suffered a concussion, a punctured lung, broken ribs and a broken nose. During the trial, the defense argued that Weinman attacked Graham, whom he did not know, because he was in a psychotic rage sparked by severe epileptic seizures. The judge agreed, and ordered Weinman committed to the Oregon State Hospital for up to 20 years. See Weinman / A4
Tracking mutations Both teams used a new method for decoding DNA very rapidly. This means that instead of studying one gene at a time, researchers can now afford to look across the whole genome, tracking all the mutations that occur in cancer cells. The Johns Hopkins team identified a long series of mutations that had accumulated in the original tumors of seven patients, as well as in the secondary cancers that had spread from the pancreas to the liver, lung and peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity. See Cancer / A4
single network of providers. Because St. Charles Health System is a nonprofit corporation, its hospitals are required to take all patients, regardless of their insurance coverage or ability to pay. That same responsibility, said Karen Shepard, chief financial officer of St. Charles Health System, is conveyed to any physician who is employed by the system or who enters into an affiliation contract with it. See Health care / A4
Ron Wyden
Jim Huffman
Democratic U.S. senator Age: 61 Hometown: Portland Family: Wife, Nancy; children, Adam, Lilly, William Peter and Ava Rose Employment: U.S. senator Political, community experience: Founder of the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers, an advocacy group for seniors. U.S. House member from 1981 to 1996. Served in U.S. Senate from 1996 to present.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Age: 65 Hometown: Portland Family: Wife, Leslie; three school-age children and two older children from a previous marriage Employment: Professor at Lewis and Clark Law School since 1978 Political, community experience: Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, board of directors, 1997-present; Cato Supreme Court Review, editorial board, 2002-present; Oregonians in Action Legal Center, board member, 1991-present
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Jeffrey Richard Weinman is led into a Deschutes County courtroom in 2008.
IRAN: U.S. seeks sharp cutbacks in nuclear production, Page A3
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Want some hands-on experience in forensic science? Teaching tools used by the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven include labs set up as crime scenes. Mark Mirko Hartford Courant
You’re in luck: New institute offers visitors a chance to play CSI By Kathleen Megan The Hartford Courant
HARTFORD, Conn. — When you enter the new $14 million home of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, you are immersed in the bloodstained world of forensic investigation, and particularly in the cases handled by Lee in his eminent career. First you touch a handprint on a wall that launches a video of Lee explaining that your fingerprints will now be checked
with a database. Then the police sirens wail and you hear officers barking orders over a scanner. On your left is a virtual crime scene laboratory where images and pertinent evidence from Connecticut’s notorious “wood-chipper” murder case are projected on the walls. Farther in are exhibits showing how various types of light reveal bloodstains on a screwdriver; a chance to match bullets; and a look at the differences between male and female skeletal remains. See Forensics / A5