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Coyner will shepherd the negotiation of Oregon’s next five-year Medicaid agreement with the federal government.

The latest U.S. data shows that women in their teens and early 20s reported drinking and getting drunk at higher rates than their male peers -- in some cases for the first time since researchers began measuring such behavior.

“I was naive, certainly, in assuming that this was actually a documentary, which I would say it is not. I think that it is an advocacy piece for anti-vaxxers,” said medical historian Naomi Rogers.

The Biden administration is encouraging Oregon and other states to hold on to hundreds of thousands of soon-to-expire COVID vaccine doses from Johnson & Johnson.

The board, which makes recommendations on patient safety and care, says it has questions about staffing levels and the role of the National Guard.

The bill eliminates some insurance barriers to proton beam therapy therapy, which is used to treat prostate cancer patients.

The bill, backed by Oregon Health & Science University, follows noose incidents at OHSU.

Lane, Coos, and Wasco counties move to lower risk in Oregon’s COVID-19 framework but Harney County slips in its ranking.

Critics say the administration has failed to address long-term problems and listen to what staff have to say.

In many Oregon counties, fewer than a quarter of eligible Medicaid members have gotten even a single shot of COVID-19 vaccine.