At the same time, the Senate Health Committee held off a push from the Oregon Dental Association to give dentists the ability to administer shots. Both bills are designed to counteract Oregon’s drop in vaccination rates by improving access.
California and New Jersey have banned the practice with legislation, which aims to turn LGBT people straight. The therapy has been widely disavowed by professional organizations as not only ineffective but dangerous but it remains in practice nonetheless.
The committee is considering three bills aimed at tackling one of the biggest cost drivers in medicine today -- outrageously priced biological wonder drugs. One bill would prevent health insurers from gouging consumers who need these medications. A second bill would require pharmaceuticals to report their profit information to the Oregon Health Authority. The third bill would free pharmacists to dispense FDA-approved biosimilars without special state barriers.
Three laws brought by a group of citizens who lost loved ones to suicide are aimed at nudging hospitals to provide better communication to family members when patients leave the hospital, and requires hospitals to link them with case management and outpatient services.
In bizarre twist, PeaceHealth Medical Group comes back to the negotiating table, announces new hires and changes to management of the physicians, who say they are severely understaffed, overworked, and frustrated.
