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Oregon’s flu season one of the worst in the past decade

Oregon is experiencing a significant second peak of flu illness and hospitalizations this month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared this flu season a high severity for all age groups for the first time since 2017-2018.

Feb 25

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Fox Tucson Theatre in Tucson, Arizona in 2024. | COURTESY/GAGE SKIDMORE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

With RFK Jr. in charge, supplement makers see chance to cash in

The FDA is already limited in policing claims of health benefits by makers of supplements and herbal remedies — a $70 billion industry. Get ready for even less regulation.

Feb 25

Picket line near Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Jan. 28, 2025. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providence nurses end strike despite mixed feelings, approve contracts at eight hospitals

Oregon's largest-ever health care strike has ended after nurses at Providence's eight hospitals approved tentative deals negotiated by their union. They'd resoundingly rejected the union's earlier attempt at reaching agreement.

Feb 24
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The Covid ‘Contrarians’ Are in Power. We Still Haven’t Hashed Out Whether They Were Right.

The polarized disagreements about what worked and what didn’t in the fight against the biggest public health disaster in modern times have yet to be aired in a nonpartisan setting — and it seems unlikely they ever will be

Feb 22

An ambulance pulls into the entrance driveway for Oregon Health & Science University's emergency department on Wed., Oct. 27, 2021. | OHSU/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS

Opinion: OHSU’s acquisition of Legacy Health likely to worsen the state's affordability crisis

Higher prices charged by Oregon Health & Science University if the proposed merger goes through would likely accelerate premium hikes, damaging business growth and wages, Oregon health care analyst says

Feb 20

Sejal Hathi, the director of the Oregon Health Authority, has taken a part-time job seeing patients at Stanford University's teaching hospital in California. Hathi said she misses seeing patients, will work a weekend a month and is trying to restructure the position so she receives no pay. | STATE OF OREGON

Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi defends outside job at legislative hearing

Critics say her $265,000-a-year-job is 24-7, but Hathi told lawmakers her side job won't be a distraction from Oregon's largest state agency. She plans to work a shift or two a month at Stanford University's teaching hospital .

Feb 20
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Trump disbands health equity panel examining Medicare and Medicaid

The committee was designed to reduce barriers to care for people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans. A new executive order deemed it "unnecessary."

Feb 20

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U.S. Senate Dems issue warning on ‘massive cuts’ to Medicaid predicted in GOP budget

President Donald Trump said that cuts to the government insurance program for low-income people are off the table, comments that are at odds with plans floated by Congressional Republicans

Feb 20

Wildfire smoke covers the Ochocos Mountains in Central Oregon on Aug. 18, 2020. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon is home to 4 of the top 5 smokiest cities nationwide

Northwest researchers find Medford, Grants Pass and Bend had the most wildfire smoke from 2019-2023

Feb 20

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Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Feb 20

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