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Steak dinners, sales reps and risky procedures: Inside the big business of clogged arteries

Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans’ hospital.

Feb 16, 2023

Paul Davis is a retired physician in Findlay, Ohio, who calls his uveal melanoma “one of the rarest tumors on the planet.” The rare eye cancer requires $50,000-a-week drug treatments to keep Davis alive, and he worries that cost may saddle his family with a crushing medical debt when he’s gone. | MADDIE MCGARVEY/KHN

Your money or your life: Patient on $50,000-a-week cancer drug fears leaving behind huge medical debt

Prices for cancer drugs have soared to from less than $10,000 annually in the 1990s to more than $200,000 today, expert says.

Feb 16, 2023

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Oregon bill would ban therapists from trying to change a person’s sexual orientation

Bill would expand ban on attempting conversion therapy with people of any age.

Feb 16, 2023

Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is tentatively being absorbed by California-based Adventist Health. | PHOTO BY LARVICK MEDIA/COURTESY OF MCMC

Critics, backers emerge on Adventist plan to absorb Mid-Columbia Medical Center

Adventist Health’s proposal to absorb the financially strapped Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles has sparked numerous comments, including fierce support and opposition.

Feb 16, 2023
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State prepares to take 300,000 people off Oregon Health Plan as pandemic measures end

Officials expect difficulty in reaching members of the Medicaid-funded program after a three-year pause in eligibility checks.

Feb 16, 2023
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Meth, fentanyl fuel record number of deaths among homeless people in Multnomah County

The 193 deaths among people experiencing homelessness in Multnomah County in 2021 amounted to a 53% increase over the previous record set in 2020.

Feb 15, 2023

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Review launched of CareOregon-SCAN merger

Executives say they welcome the extended process, a first for the state, after some raised questions.

Feb 14, 2023
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Doctors are disappearing from emergency rooms as hospitals look to cut costs

Midlevel practioners are increasingly replacing emergency room physicians as more hospitals outsource, but one study suggests the shift could lead to longer stays and increased costs.

Feb 14, 2023

Miranda Campos, 9, closes her eyes as she receives an immunization at a catch-up vaccination clinic held at McDaniel High School in Northeast Portland on Feb. 8, 2023. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF / OPB