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Oregon sees late-summer surge in COVID cases

Uptick in cases comes as health regulators work to adjust vaccination guidance

Sep 11, 2025

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Affirmative action critics refuse to back down in fight over medical bias training

Ophthalmologist says he resents having to take time to discuss reduction of bias when he's talking about medical matters

Sep 11, 2025

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Trump’s Medicaid cuts were aimed at ‘able-bodied adults.’ Hospitals say kids will be hurt.

Some children’s hospitals collectively stand to lose billions of dollars in revenue once Trump’s wide-ranging tax and spending law is fully enacted, according to the Children’s Hospital Association

Sep 11, 2025

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CVS reverses course, won’t give COVID vaccines to Oregonians without prescriptions

The company has been promoting access without a prescription in the state as recently as last week. Now the chain awaits clarifying guidance from regulators

Sep 11, 2025

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State boosts rates to keep Oregon Health Plan contractors

The rates issued by the state for last year’s contracts failed to cover costs to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, prompting some care organizations to consider leaving the Medicaid-funded program altogether

Sep 9, 2025
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Oregon Health Forum Panelist (clockwise from top left) Ifeoma Muoto, Juan Pedro Moreno Olmeda, Chelsea King, Maureen Hinman, Andi M. Walsh and Jun Orion. Pictured Sept. 8, 2025.

Oregon youths’ health requires prevention, collaboration to weather federal storm, panel says

Health care experts and policymakers gathered Monday to discuss ways to make Oregon’s care system for young people resilient against federal cuts and achieve better outcomes

Sep 9, 2025
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, May 20, 2025. | WEBCAST SCREENSHOT

Oregon Sen. Wyden clashes with RFK Jr. on vaccines, calls for his ouster

Every day Kennedy has been in office, “there’s been an action that endangers the health and wellness of families,” Wyden said.

Sep 9, 2025

In 2024, the Texas State Guard participated in Operation Border Health, a five-day free health clinic in Texas. The annual event was canceled this year after the Trump administration announced a plan to strip more than $550 million in federal public health and pandemic emergency funds from Texas. | TEXAS STATE GUARD

In the fallout from Trump’s health funding cuts, states face tough budget decisions

States and local governments have made painful program cuts in the wake of major reductions in federal health funding that have already taken effect. Now, they’re sizing up even more financial hits to come.

Sep 9, 2025