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Empowered staff members Rachel Mack (left) and Rachel Williams (center) help a client pick out clothes for her child. | JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS

Feds try to head off growing problem of overdoses among expectant mothers

Significant barriers stand in the way of care even as national rates of fatal drug overdoses during and shortly after pregnancy continue to rise
Oct 19, 2023
Verdell and William Haleck of Utah hold a photo of their son Sheldon, who died after an encounter with Honolulu police in 2015. They filed a civil lawsuit against the officers after his death, which they ultimately lost in large part due to an argument that he had died of “excited delirium.” | CHRIS HANSEN/9NEWS

Doctors abandon a diagnosis used to justify police custody deaths. It might live on, anyway.

Some hope disavowals of “excited delirium syndrome” will lead to better outcomes between first responders and people in mental health crises. But it remains unclear whether it will prevent defense lawyers from using similar victim-blaming concepts with alternative terminology.
Oct 17, 2023
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum talks with an official from Planned Parenthood before a news conference about the abortion pill on Sunday, March 12, 2023. | LYNNE TERRY/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Ellen Rosenblum, other attorneys general urge Supreme Court to preserve abortion pill access

A coalition of 24 Democratic attorneys general filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging it to reverse a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling making it harder for patients to access mifepristone
Oct 17, 2023
Workers rallied on Oct. 10, 2022, at Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, to protest working conditions. | COURTESY PHOTO

Threatened PeaceHealth strike could strip workers’ health coverage

Management warns southwest Washington workers their health insurance will be terminated if a strike lasts more than a week
Oct 17, 2023
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File: Necia Cage Pankey, a frontline worker at Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside Medical Center, chants with the crowd at a press conference held at the Oregon AFL-CIO offices in Portland, Sept. 14, 2023. SEIU members who work at Kaiser ended their strike at 6 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, though members of another union remained on strike. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Kaiser, union reach tentative deal after 3-day strike by health care workers

The tentative contract deal comes after a historic three-day strike last week
Oct 17, 2023

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