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How To Curb Cost Of Health Care? Lots Of Ideas, No Quick Fix

The relentless rise of health care costs, which account for nearly one-fifith of the economy, is a bane to the country, but experts disagree about how to stem them to bring the United States in line with other industrialized countries, which spend far less on health care.

Oct 26, 2020
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The Medical Management of Caries: A Paradigm Shift?

The author asks why – 67 years later – no one has suggested using silver nitrate and sodium fluoride together in a combination therapy instead of merely comparing the two.

Oct 1, 2014

A statue outside the Oregon Capitol. | ALEX VISSER/THE LUND REPORT

COVID-19, Health Care Funding In Full Legislative Agenda

Issues related to the pandemic are certain to dominate the session but there are plenty of other proposals in the works, including legislation on a public option.

Jan 19, 2021
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PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. | CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/THE LUND REPORT

PeaceHealth Lavishes Pay On Execs, Angers Staff But Keeps Profits Flowing

Apr 22, 2019
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Prospects for resolution unclear as historic nurses strike begins in Portland, Seaside

Providence Health & Services officials say they’ve cut services as neither side budges on contract negotiations

Jun 19, 2023
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