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Jonah Sacha with OHSU
Jonah Sacha, Ph.D, at OHSU's Oregon National Primate Research Center and Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (shown here) has won a grant to work with three patients who were cured of HIV after they received a cancer treatment to try to develop a cure that can be scaled up safely to others. | OHSU, KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

A handful of patients have been cured of HIV. OHSU just won $8.4 million to decode their cells for a cure

OHSU announced this week that three men are giving their cells in an attempt to engineer a cure for HIV
Sep 2, 2025
The emergency department at Legacy Good Samaritan hospital in Portland on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Continued challenges at Legacy trigger drop in financial health grade

A prominent bond ratings agency says that despite some improvements Legacy needs to curb its worrisome loss of reserves. The system cites low government reimbursements and high costs for charity care and labor
Sep 2, 2025
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Allen and Amy Frank KFF
Amy Frank says she spent 17 hours on the phone ensuring that post-surgery care for her husband, Allen Frank, would be covered by insurance. The couple was among 90,000 people in central Missouri caught in the middle of a contract dispute between University of Missouri Health Care, a Columbia, Missouri-based health system, and Anthem, the national health insurance provider. | PHOTO COURTESY OF AMY FRANK

When hospitals and insurers fight, patients get caught in the middle

Amy Frank and her husband, Allen, are among tens of thousands of employees lost in a health care loophole due to industry contract disputes
Sep 2, 2025
The ribbon cutting for the South Lane Clinic took place on Aug. 28, 2025. Speakers at the event included Lane County commissioner Heather Buch (left), Health and Human Services director Eve Gray, Lane Community College president Stephanie Bulger, Caitlyn McCabe (healthcare aide for U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle), and "Be Your Best" co-founder Jim Gilroy.
The ribbon cutting for the South Lane Clinic took place on Aug. 28, 2025. Speakers at the event included Lane County commissioner Heather Buch (left), Health and Human Services director Eve Gray, Lane Community College president Stephanie Bulger, Caitlyn McCabe (healthcare aide for U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle), and "Be Your Best" co-founder Jim Gilroy. | GABRIELLA SGRO/KLCC

Low-barrier community clinic officially opens in Cottage Grove

The clinic brings a vitally needed health care option to rural South Lane County, along with training for students going into medical fields
Sep 2, 2025
Oregon nurses rally to save maternity centers
Nurses and patients rally to save the maternity units in Lebanon and Lincoln City outside Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital on July 23, 2025. | PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN MEALY/OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Samaritan decides to continue maternity, surgical services in Lebanon, Lincoln City

The health care system will try to reduce its use of expensive temporary providers while creating hospital-wide teams to coordinate maternity and surgical care
Aug 28, 2025
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Danish drug giant sues Tualatin plastic surgery clinic

Pharmaceutical giant’s suit claims Gorin Plastic Surgery used misleading marketing to sell compounded version of anti-obesity meds. The suit is one of 12 filed across the country as the firm tries to squelch the proliferation of copycat versions that are less expensive.
Aug 28, 2025
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