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8211 SE 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97202

8am - 6pm Monday - Friday
Office Only: 8am - 11am Saturday

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From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Health Notes Why aren’t glasses and dental included in insurance?

This is a question that’s bothered us for a long time.  Why aren’t routine eye care and routine dental care

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Health Notes- New SuperBugs evolving from Western diet

Sugary Western Diets Fuel Newly Evolving Superbugs By Yasemin Saplakoglu on LiveScience.com, Aug 2019  A diarrhea-causing bacterium is evolving into

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Health Notes- Our best Health advice? Don’t do any of these…

Modern medicine has come a long way for those who can afford it, but we frequently forget that ‘modern’ medicine

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Health Notes- How Your Looks Shape Your Personality

          How Your Looks Shape Your Personality By Dr. Christian Jarrett on BBC Future, Jun 2019

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Health Notes- Want to lose weight? Skip the exercise.

Swimsuit season is coming like a freight train, and many of us are thinking of hitting the gym before we

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Health Notes- Want to live to 90? There’s different advice for men and women

How likely are you live to 90? Depends on your gender and body size By Sandee LaMotte, CNN     Updated 5:45

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Health Notes- Your money or your life

The exponentially rising costs of prescription medication (and of course, health care in general) aren’t news to anyone, but an

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Health Notes- Cure for cancer! Hooray! Maybe? Maybe not.

We were surprised with some unequivocally good news recently when Israeli scientists announced a cure for cancer!  Clickbait covered the

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Health Notes- You can cut your cancer risk by eating organic

From Susan Scutti on CNN.com, Oct 2018 Click here for the original article You can protect yourself from cancer by

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The Neuroscience of Pain

“Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten”.  If you’ve never been asked that question you’re lucky, but

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Health Notes- Why are we overweight? It’s not willpower…

This is an article from The Guardian so it references information from England, but as you’ll see the causes of

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Health Notes- We’re so sorry, but you just aren’t worth curing

You remember Goldman Sachs… they’re the multibillion dollar investment bank we taxpayers cured with a $10 billion injection during the

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