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Pediatric beds are viewed as less profitable by hospitals, experts say.
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Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation participate in a drumming demonstration at a conference in 2017.
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Man with a below-the-knee amputation walking on stones with a prosthesis.
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COURTESY/AXILES BIONICS VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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An ambulance pulls into the entrance driveway for Oregon Health & Science University's emergency department on Wed., Oct. 27, 2021.
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OHSU/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS
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This 2016 illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which causes whooping cough, based on electron microscope imagery.
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CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
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Rachel Solotaroff at Portland's Old Town Clinic.
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COURTESY CENTRAL CITY CONCERN
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Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, in Portland, Ore., Aug. 2, 2023.
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Dr. Lisa Reynolds, a pediatrician and Democratic lawmaker, speaks at the CCO Oregon conference in Salem in Sept. 2024.
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Bill Hall, who lives alone in Seattle, contracted HIV in 1986. Since then, he has battled depression, heart disease, diabetes, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, kidney cancer, and prostate cancer. This past year, he’s been hospitalized five times with potentially life-threatening medical crises.
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A researcher draws blood from a farmworker to analyze it for signs of a previous, undetectedbird flu infection.
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