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Feds expand probe into new layer of drug middlemen

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the country's biggest PBMs, the drug middlemen who've been accused of raising prices and hurting local pharmacies, as well as their affiliated companies called group purchasing organizations — some of which are headquartered overseas.

Jun 22, 2023

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Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics, and now US cancer patients can’t get meds

Drug shortages are forcing doctors and patients to contemplate untested rationing plans for breast, cervical, bladder, ovarian, lung, testicular and other cancers

Jun 22, 2023

For a time, drive-through and walk-in vaccinations were available across the state, including some funded by the state. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PORTLAND TRIBUNE (USED WITH PERMISSION)

Legislature likely to provide a fraction of public health officers’ budget request

Local health officials sought $286 million to combat health disparities; a budget bill includes $50 million

Jun 20, 2023
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Health care legislation back on Senate agenda as impasse ends

The Senate has less than a week to finish a long legislative to-do list that includes hospital staffing, funding a crisis line and more

Jun 20, 2023
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For those unfit to make decisions, a complex path out of the hospital

The guardianship process is long and complicated, and there aren’t enough people willing to take on that role for patients

Jun 20, 2023

Woman hold pro-choice signs in protest at nation's capital.

A reproductive rights protest in Washington D.C. on Oct. 2, 2021. | SHUTTERSTOCK

A year after Dobbs: Congress takes a back seat on federal abortion policy

Congress has not enacted federal legislation to either preserve reproductive rights or to restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court nullified the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Jun 20, 2023

people in surgical scrubs in hospital hallway

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International rights group calls out US for allowing hospitals to push millions into debt

Despite efforts in states like Oregon, patient and consumer advocates say stronger federal action is needed

Jun 20, 2023

The headquarters building in Salem of the Oregon Health Authority. | STATE OF OREGON

Audit: Oregon Health Authority mishandled hundreds of thousands in federal mental health money

Jun 19, 2023

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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Plan for crisis stabilization in Portland shifts amid uncertainty

Citing challenges to setting up a large crisis stabilization center, the county is looking for providers to run smaller sobering and stabilization programs

Jun 15, 2023

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