With support of the Oregon Health Authority, the city council voted to begin fluoridation in 2014.
The Oregon Health Experiment, with its results posted today, is just the latest study to show the same result.
FORBES: Oregon Health Experiment Shows That Having Health Insurance Is Different Than Being Healthy
"The pace this has gone is nothing short of spectacular, " says Brian Druker, an oncologist with Oregon Health Sciences University who led the first trial.
"People who got a fake procedure did just as well as people who got the real thing, " says back pain researcher Richard Deyo of Oregon Health and Science University, who was not involved in either study.
In fact, one of the doctors who signed the commentary is Brian Druker, who was the lead academic developer of the drug and is now director of the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.
The committee committee then suspended until 5pm when it intended to take evidence from Professor Linda Ganzini, from Oregon Health and Science University and Deborah Whiting Jaques, from the Oregon Hospice Association the United States, via video link.
With the help of certain "growth" chemicals, they were able to transform the stem cells into "various cell lines and tissues, including beating human heart cells, " said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a developmental biologist at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Ore.
But Dr Joseph Gilhooly, a neonatalogist at Oregon Health and Science University in the US which has a water birth programme, said that babies who do not get enough oxygen during childbirth may gasp for air, risking allowing water to enter their lungs.
In May 2000, the Oregon Department of Health surveyed 87 samples of non-spirulina blue green algae, finding that 63 had microcystin levels above the regulatory limit.
Economists have spent years posing the same question being answered by the Oregon researchers: does health insurance make you healthier?
FORBES: Oregon Health Experiment Shows That Having Health Insurance Is Different Than Being Healthy
In April, the penny-pinchers at the USDA will also sponsor the Priester National Health Extension Conference in Corvallis, Oregon.
Just about everyone in Oregon agrees with Dr Kitzhaber that it is better to ration health care by deciding which medical procedures you can do without, rather than rationing it by leaving an unfortunate minority totally unprotected.
This is not easy: when the American state of Oregon tried using opinion surveys to help set the priorities of its health service, it reached the bizarre conclusion that cosmetic breast-enlargement was more important than treating broken legs.
Already, though, many think that fundamental changes in health care and even in American society itself have taken place because of Oregon's earlier decision.
Governors in New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas and Illinois, among others, have trotted out universal health plans, while other states like Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio have commissioned outside consultants to crack the financial logistics.
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