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Behavioral health workers at Legacy Health’s Unity Center seek to unionize

The union drive at the psychiatric facility is the latest effort by the Oregon Nurses Association to organize medical workers

Jul 13, 2023
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Judge again rejects hospital lawsuit over psychiatric patient boarding

Four hospital systems, which provide a majority of Oregon’s psychiatric beds, indicated they are “assessing their options”

Jul 13, 2023
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Merkley, lawmakers reintroduce bill to battle nation’s stillbirth crisis

While other wealthy countries have been able to reduce their stillbirth rates, the U.S. has fallen behind

Jul 13, 2023

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Climate resiliency program installs air conditioners in Portland dwellings

The “Cooling Portland” organization hopes to distribute 15,000 air conditioning units by 2026

Jul 13, 2023

In this video screenshot, Tony Klein was deposed in November 2019 as part of civil litigation involving 10 women incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, who accused him of sexual abuse. | VIDEO SCREENSHOT/PLAINTIFF DEPOSITION/MICHELLE BURROWS/OPB

Federal trial of former Oregon prison nurse begins

Sides give starkly different opening statements in trial of Tony Klein, the women’s prison nurse accused of sexual abuse

Jul 12, 2023

Drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis. | CDC/UNSPLASH

Overuse of antibiotics leading to dangerous ‘superbugs’ examined by U.S. Senate panel

Congress is considering the Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Upsurging Resistance (PASTEUR) Act, which would change how the U.S. approaches antibiotics

Jul 12, 2023