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Winter-pattern Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD is prevalent in the Pacific Northwest. Besides mental and emotional symptoms, the disorder can also cause physical problems like body aches and pains, headaches and digestive issues. | MAREK STUDZINSKI/UNSPLASH

Feeling SAD? Here are some ways to treat the winter depression

Winter-pattern Seasonal Affective Disorder-- or SAD-- is a type of depression prevalent in the Pacific Northwest, and providers recommend exercise, vitamin D supplements and other approaches to combat it

Dec 10, 2024

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Luigi Mangione’s Hawaiʻi friends shocked by arrest in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Luigi Mangione lived at the Surfbreak co-living community near Ala Moana Park on Oʻahu. He was arrested Monday in Pennsylvania, five days after the shooting of an insurance executive.

Dec 10, 2024

Two health officials at Oregon Department of Corrections placed on leave amid investigation

The agency has an open investigation into its head doctor and assistant health services director

Dec 10, 2024

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Portland mental health advocates seek to join hospital lawsuit, raise pressure on state

The Mental Health Association of Portland wants a formal role in a case concerning a group of patients effectively shut out of the state psychiatric hospital and left with inadequate options

Dec 9, 2024
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Big drug middlemen sue to stop federal antitrust action

The three PBMs — CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts — are part of even larger health conglomerates that are active in many parts of the health care sector.

Dec 5, 2024

A view of OHSU's South Waterfront campus in September 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Health care community divided on OHSU-Legacy merger as opposition grows

As comments pour in to the state's merger review team, current and former employees and providers, as well as patients, are making their views known — providing a cross-section of opinion, though so far opposition appears to outstrip support

Dec 5, 2024
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Psilocybin in Oregon may help address fears of death, but people can’t always access it

Advocates for people at the end of their lives say Oregon needs to fix an oversight in its groundbreaking law

Dec 5, 2024

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With Trump on the way, advocates look to states to pick up medical debt fight

Patient and consumer advocates fear a new Trump administration will scale back federal efforts to expand financial protections for patients and shield them from debt.

Dec 5, 2024

Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center in June 2023 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon nurses union says largest health care worker strike in state history is on the table

Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses and other health care workers could strike as the union raises the stakes in negotiations with the hospital system

Dec 5, 2024
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Nursing homes fell behind on vaccinating patients for COVID

Last winter, only 4 in 10 nursing home residents got an updated COVID vaccine. The low uptake leaves a fragile population vulnerable. Some industry watchdogs say it could be a sign of eroding trust between nursing home residents and providers.

Dec 4, 2024

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