In the state with the highest rate of meth use in the nation, the drug is driving severe mental illness among criminal defendants at the state psychiatric hospital, and patients elsewhere are paying the price.
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As COVID-19 recedes and federal aid runs out, hospitals shakily try to find their balance in a new world of staffing shortages and rising expense.
Aug 9 2022
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With 95 cases in the state, officials urge Oregonians to seek medical care if symptoms, including rashes, develop.
Aug 11 2022
Cities and counties are proposing bans and moratoriums, raising questions about the implementation of the statewide program, which was approved in 2020.
Aug 11 2022
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The potential statewide toll stands at 16, with half of them in Portland as authorities determine the cause.
Aug 10 2022
Despite a windfall of new funding that could combat Oregon’s meth-fueled behavioral health crisis, leaders have no plan and risk leaving promising approaches on the shelf.
Aug 4 2022
Part of a $6 million Oregon state grant is being rolled out to help treat mental health issues among cannabis farm workers stemming from poor working conditions.
Aug 11 2022
Advocates and others took to social media to voice concerns about 988 and warn people not to call it. Here's what you need to know.
Aug 11 2022
An ad misleadingly paints what is more accurately characterized as nearly $300 billion in savings for consumers and taxpayers.
Aug 11 2022
Under the legislation, Medicare would start negotiating the prices of some drugs in the program’s prescription drug plan, beginning four years from now.
Aug 11 2022
Beginning Tuesday, health care providers are being encouraged to administer the vaccine differently in an attempt to stretch out doses fivefold.
Aug 11 2022
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State officials and the hospital industry work on ways to address bottlenecks in the system as more than 500 patients wait for transfers.
Aug 9 2022
A Kaiser Permanente researcher says her large-scale four-year study in the Portland and Seattle areas will help track a virus that’s still evolving.
Aug 9 2022
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Surprised by last week’s Kansas abortion vote? You shouldn’t be, based on a new data uncovered by Oregon Values and Beliefs Center.
Aug 9 2022
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Oregon Democrat sees triumph of budget plan after months of internal talks, two all-night Senate sessions.
Aug 9 2022
Celia’s House in Medford received a grant to conduct to identify ways to better engage Latinx cancer patients with palliative and end-of-life care.
Aug 9 2022
The Biden administration argues a federal law requiring providers to offer stabilizing treatment, including abortion when necessary, trumps abortion bans.
Aug 9 2022
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Hospitals that invoke crisis standards of care in a staffing emergency must publicly disclose the crisis and how they are triaging patients.
Aug 4 2022
The Healthy Oregon Project is looking for more people to participate in the free screening, particularly communities of color.
Aug 4 2022
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A new residency program promises to bring doctors to a county that direly needs them.
Aug 4 2022
New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications.
Aug 4 2022
Sparking protest from harm reduction activists, concert promoters offer overdose reversing drugs, but not fentanyl testing.
Aug 4 2022