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For people with higher body weights, abortions can be more costly or out of reach

For the past decade, the body mass index formula has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outcomes based on higher body weight alone.

Apr 3

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Counselors, therapists want limits on audits by health insurers and the state

Providers say audits are unfairly demanding costly repayment of very old claims — but health insurers say the proposed new rules would be unworkable

Apr 3
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Trump's DEI undoing undermines hard-won accommodations for disabled people

From halting diversity programs that benefit disabled workers to making federal staffing cuts, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm people with disabilities.

Apr 3

Pre-filled insulin syringe ("insulin pen"). | PICTURE TAKEN BY PERPLEX/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Did Trump tank the FTC’s insulin suit? Observers want to know

The federal watchdog was suing pharmacy middlemen for allegedly driving up the cost of the drug diabetics rely on. But now there are no commissioners to hear the suit.

Apr 3

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Hospital price transparency bill in Washington Legislature gets reworked

The Senate-approved version removes enforcement provisions.

Apr 3

Patients who contract measles, a highly contagious disease, develop a skin rash. | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations

Records show leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff not to release experts’ finding that the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging

Apr 2

CAHOOTS provides mobile crisis intervention services in Eugene and Springfield. | BRIAN BULL/KLCC

White Bird Clinic announces deep cuts to CAHOOTS, crisis hotline

Widely praised mobile crisis intervention unit, considered a national model, will be cut back, as will a crisis hotline

Apr 2

Rep. Rob Nosse (pictured upper right) says outside advice would help lawmakers and the public when bills are proposed to require insurance companies to cover a specific treatment, device or procedure. Such bills balance complicated questions of cost and and access. | OREGON HEALTH FORUM

Bill to help lawmakers mull health insurance decisions is back

For the third session in a row, lawmakers have the opportunity to address what Rep. Rob Nosse calls a ‘lousy’ process when it comes to bills to mandate health coverage

Apr 1
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A COVID-19 VACCINE IS ADMINISTERED AT THE DESCHUTES COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN BEND, JANUARY 2021./BRADLEY W. PARKS/OPB

Oregon joins federal suit to block sudden cancellation of $11.4 billion in health grants

The Trump administration cuts would deliver a $117 million hit to Oregon programs set up to combat disease and drug addiction

Apr 1

Tatiana Leone at her home in Bremerton on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. | MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN

WA families are using ‘Joel’s Law’ for involuntary commitments more than ever. Is it working?

Petitions under Washington's involuntary commitment law increased by 266% since 2020

Apr 1

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