... profile category for "Revenge Forestry," an article about timber wars in the Elliott Forest.
Reporter Joe Rojas-Burke won a Silver award for his story about the privatization of medical research, Private ...
Oregon Business wins journalism awards. An Oregon Business article won an award in the 2014 Society for Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism Competition. The story, Defensive Play ...
... “Private Science,” (Oregon Business, July/August 2014), reporter Joe Rojas-Burke explained how private philanthropy can skew medical research in the direction of high-profile diseases that often reflect ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE
The black soldier fly’s larvae are among the most ravenous and least picky eaters on earth.
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE
During a brief adult life of four or five days, the black soldier ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE & KIM MOORE
Oregon Business reports on the visa squeeze, the skills gap and foreign-born residents who are revitalizing rural Oregon.
Oregon Business reports on the visa squeeze, ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE
Antibiotics really aren’t magic bullets.
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE
Antibiotics really aren’t magic bullets. Consider the rising threat of sepsis, a furious immune system reaction ...
... photographer. Check out his powerful cover photo of Treehouse CEO Ryan Carson.
Joe Rojas-Burke also joins us as an associate editor. A former business, health and science reporter for The Oregonian, ...
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Given Oregon’s green reputation, it’s jarring to see how badly the state ranks on measures of injustice in exposure to air pollution. BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER
Given ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER
The medical research enterprise wastes tens of billions of dollars a year on irrelevant studies. It’s time to fix it. BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER
The medical research ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER
An economic study of emergency room utilization in Oregon set off a thundering media stampede earlier this month. I was struck by the cut-and-paste sameness of much of ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER
Oregon Health & Science University recently formed a partnership with Epic Systems Corp., one of the top makers of electronic medical record software. I talked about ...
BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER
Better safe than sorry. That’s how we tend to think about health care decisions. But as a guiding principle, it’s often a huge and costly mistake. BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE ...
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1. Joe Rojas-Burke: health care and science @rojasburke
Bio: Before wandering into journalism, Portland writer Joe Rojas-Burke studied biology at Columbia University ...
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Gov. John Kitzhaber scored nearly $2 billion in federal funding to overhaul the state Medicaid program for the poor and disabled. In return, the state promised a 2% reduction ...