- Department of Self-Promotion
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 05 November 2015
- ... 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, Privat ...
- Department of Self-Promotion
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 17 June 2015
- ... cover story, Private Science, by Joe Rojas-Burke, is a finalist in both the Western Regional and National competition categories. ASBPE winners will be announced in July. ...
- Knight Cancer Challenge No Biotech Dream
- (Health Care)
- Created on 27 April 2015
- ... e, “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 refl ...
- Fly Zone
- (Farms and Forests)
- Created on 22 October 2014
- 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 ...
- A Complex Portrait: Immigration, Jobs and the Economy
- (Politics)
- Created on 22 October 2014
- 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, ...
- True Blood
- (Health Care)
- Created on 25 September 2014
- 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 ...
- Buyer's Remorse
- (From the Editor)
- Created on 31 August 2014
- ... 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, ...
- Environmental injustice: Oregon has little to brag about
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 30 April 2014
- BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER 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 ...
- Speeding up science
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 25 February 2014
- 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 ...
- Crowded ERs reflect systemic failures
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 16 January 2014
- 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 ...
- The promise and pitfalls of eHealth
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 16 December 2013
- 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 ...
- The high cost of overtreatment
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 11 November 2013
- 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 ...
- OregonBusiness.com ramps up
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 24 October 2013
- ... OREGON BUSINESS BLOG NETWORK 1. Joe Rojas-Burke: health care and science @rojasburke Bio: Before wandering into journalism, Portland writer Joe Rojas-Burke studied biology at Columbia Universit ...
- The real test of Oregon’s health care transformation
- (Must Reads)
- Created on 03 October 2013
- BY JOE ROJAS-BURKE | OB BLOGGER 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 ...