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Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. | M.O. STEVENS/WIKIMEDIA

Portland-area Providence doctors and nurses authorize strike as contract negotiations continue

According to the nurses union, about 150 staff would be impacted in the walkout, and it would be the “first doctor’s strike in Oregon history”

Oct 24, 2024

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New Marie Equi Center opens in Portland for low-income and homeless LGBTQ residents

The Marie Equi Center, named for the famous doctor and women’s rights activist, opened Tuesday, offering wound care, connection to health services and eventually showers for low-income and homeless LGBTQ people

Oct 15, 2024

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Clark County whooping cough trend continues as school year starts

The Southwest Washington county has the state's highest number of cases of the illness, known as pertussis. While the number of cases has decreased, it's not clear if the trend will continue

Oct 10, 2024

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Bags of fluid for intravenous (IV) infusions. | COURTESY/NIAID VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

How a flooded North Carolina factory could impact Oregon hospitals

The shortage due to Hurricane Helene could last months

Oct 10, 2024

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An aerial view of Grants Pass, Oregon. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Oregon jail health care provider destroyed evidence and tried to cover it up, judge finds

For a third time a federal judge has ruled that Wellpath — one of the nation’s largest for-profit providers of health care to people in prisons and jails — wrongfully deleted emails connected to in-custody deaths

Oct 8, 2024

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COVID-19, RSV, flu: Updated shots are available now in Oregon

Reformulated flu and COVID-19 shots are available to Oregonians starting this month. And an RSV vaccine — developed only last year — could have an unprecedented impact in keeping infants out of the hospital this fall and winter.

Sep 24, 2024

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More than a dozen cities will ask their voters if they want to ban psilocybin

Despite national interest in Oregon's first-in-the-nation law legalizing the supervised use of psilocybin, sixteen local jurisdictions spread across the state are contemplating either permanent or temporary bans on the use of the naturally occurring psychedelic

Sep 12, 2024

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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon State Hospital resumes visitation, but most will be no-contact

Patients receiving a “hospital-level of care” will only be allowed visits with no physical contact

Sep 10, 2024

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Drug possession is a crime again in Oregon. Here’s what you need to know

The roll-back of Ballot Measure 110 went into effect Sept. 1

Sep 3, 2024

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Wildfire smoke covers the Ochocos Mountains in Central Oregon on Aug. 18, 2020. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Climate change will keep hitting Oregonians hard, but the exact impact will depend on where you live

The state's first-ever climate change vulnerability assessment focused on rural areas where resources to improve water treatment or plan responses to wildfires are more scarce

Sep 3, 2024