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Testimony continues in the PeaceHealth trial in U.S. District Court in Eugene.
April 29, 2026, was the third day of testimony in U.S. District Court over PeaceHealth’s plans to transition emergency staffing from Eugene Emergency Physicians to a group created by Georgia-based ApolloMD. | TIFFANY ECKERT | KLCC

‘Defies logic’: U.S. District judge fumes over testimony on day three of PeaceHealth trial in Eugene

Dr. Johne Philip Chapman is the sole owner and member of Lane Emergency Physicians, which is expected to take over emergency departments in Cottage Grove, Florence and Springfield in the coming months. He doesn't plan on moving to Oregon.
Apr 30
His farm was losing money, and Chris Pawelski considered taking his life.
Chris Pawelski hit his breaking point in 2020. He was working constantly, but his family’s farm in New York’s Orange County was bleeding money and debts were accruing. He started thinking about suicide. | JEFFREY BASINGER FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS

Saving lives by changing lives: The next frontier in suicide prevention

Researchers and advocates say it's more important to give depressed people a reason to live, rather than trying simply to stop them from taking their lives
Apr 30
Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Asante seeks to dodge state review of surgery center purchase

Leadership of the Asante hospital system is seeking to use a loophole in the state merger approval process to avoid answering state officials’ questions about how a proposed deal would affect costs
Apr 28
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Anita Chopra, M.D., FACP, runs the post-COVID clinic at UW Medicine Primary Care in Shoreline, and says she is encountering more cases of long COVID in her practice. (Photo by Daniel Berman)
Anita Chopra, M.D., FACP, runs the post-COVID clinic at UW Medicine Primary Care in Shoreline, and says she is encountering more cases of long COVID in her practice. | DANIEL BERMAN/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Latino farmworkers face high rates of long COVID but barriers delay diagnosis

A 2020 study found that many farmworkers initially avoided vaccination due to concerns about side effects, fears of contracting COVID-19 from the vaccine, and distrust of the government.
Apr 28
A metal gangway leads to the floating pumphouse used to harvest water for Public Wholesale Water Supply District 20 outside Sedan, Kan.
A metal gangway leads to the floating pumphouse used to harvest water for Public Wholesale Water Supply District 20 outside Sedan, Kan. A new analysis found agricultural states, including Kansas, have seen drinking water systems record thousands of instances of elevated nitrate, a potentially dangerous byproduct of farming. | KEVIN HARDY/STATELINE

Nitrate contaminates the drinking water of millions of Americans, study finds

Researchers are increasingly questioning whether the federal threshold should be lowered as more studies find links between even low levels of nitrate consumption and cancer and birth defects
Apr 28
Mary Jannotta, left, and Susan Ousterman with a picture of Ousterman's son, Tyler Cordeiro, who died of a drug overdose in 2020.
Pennsylvania resident Mary Jannotta, 77, left, and her daughter, Susan Ousterman, with a photograph of Susan’s son, Tyler Cordeiro. Jannotta had to overcome an addiction to opioid painkillers. Cordeiro died of a drug overdose in 2020. | JESSICA GRIFFIN/THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

'A punch in the gut:' After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be shut out of Purdue settlement

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation
Apr 28

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