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Lawmakers have little time to make deep health care cuts

The Oregon Health Authority is looking to slash its number of budgeted employees by close to 2% as part of a much larger package of recommended cuts — even as other reductions are contemplated for providers and lower-income Oregonians

Nov 18, 2025
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Warning on ByHeart infant formula broadens as more children hospitalized

Close to two dozen infants have been hospitalized, including two in Oregon. Federal inspectors have visited the company’s Portland facility as they try to stop the outbreak.

Nov 14, 2025

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Q&A: Legacy CEO George Brown on the OHSU breakup and an independent future

The semi-retired longtime health care leader came back to Legacy Health as a short-term placeholder. Now 18 months in, he says the Oregon-based hospital system is regaining its financial footing.

Nov 13, 2025
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Opinion: Enforcement challenges and an alternative for Oregon’s health care merger review program

A health care economist says Oregon can take a page from Massachusetts to increase the state’s ability to protect consumers and patients

Nov 13, 2025

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Lake Oswego medical device company faces new allegations of fraud, ‘kickbacks’

A sales manager for Biotronik accuses the company of improperly rewarding doctors who use its devices and defrauding Medicare in a lawsuit that comes 3 years after a federal investigation of similar complaints

Nov 13, 2025
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Adventist Health-Columbia Gorge hospital in The Dalles, when it was still known as Mid-Columbia Medical Center. | BILL BEERS | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Hospital in The Dalles clears hurdle in bid to cut beds, boost revenue

The state’s merger review office has approved the first stage of Adventist Health’s bid to convert its Columbia Gorge facility to tap a relatively lucrative federal program

Nov 10, 2025
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County officials vow to defy state pressure on behavior health

Citing accountability, state health officials are trying to rewrite behavioral health contracts with counties — but local officials say the changes will hurt patients and leave counties holding the bag for the state’s many failures.

Nov 10, 2025
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The Malhotra Lab team includes Dhanir Tailor, Sanjay Malhotra, Arpit Dheeraj and Carrsyn Haley. | COURTESY OF OHSU

OHSU study highlights potential new drug for aggressive breast cancer

A synthetic molecule derived from plants could significantly improve survival rates for an aggressive form of breast cancer, as well as for breast cancer patients with metabolic disease, such as diabetes.

Nov 7, 2025
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Oregon seeks $1 billion for rural health

State health officials are competing with other states for a share of $50 billion in federal rural health funds

Nov 6, 2025
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