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California lawmakers are considering protections for students during students’ physical activities during heat waves, wildfires, excessive rain and flooding — events that are becoming more common in Oregon

Governor’s spouse was part of ‘team’ working on behavioral health, emails show. Supporters fear governor’s handling of the situation could spark backlash.

Red tape from a decades-old law is preventing Americans from using cancer-preventing sunscreens that are available in other countries. A bill in Congress could change that

Critics disagree on whether the state’s proposed final rules for insurers and hospitals are too weak or will have unintended effects

Only 19% of the roughly 2.1 million U.S. adults who have opioid use disorder receive methadone treatment

In the latest sign of turmoil at the federally funded nonprofit, Dr. Henry Holmes seeks $750,000, saying he was fired for flagging ‘unlawful practices’ to state and federal officials

More than four years after COVID first raged through many U.S. nursing homes, hundreds of lawsuits blaming patient deaths on negligent care have been tossed out or languished in the courts

Oregon’s largest county details human toll from synthetic opioid and shows which communities are being affected disproportionately

Until they have more details, state regulators cannot do much, according to the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, even as Oregon's U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden proposes descheduling marijuana altogether

Women between 18 and 35 who have had a baby in the past year and a half are twice as likely to have medical debt as women of the same age who haven’t given birth recently. About 12% of the 100 million U.S. adults with health care debt attribute at least some of it to pregnancy or childbirth, with many having to take on extra work or make other sacrifices.