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SHUTTERSTOCK

Oregon tops country in share of people retaining Medicaid, study finds

States are again checking to see if people covered by Medicaid are eligible after a pause during the pandemic. Oregon has kept 80% of its Medicaid recipients enrolled in the program, a new study found

Jul 25, 2024

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Patients who contract measles, a highly contagious disease, develop a skin rash. | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Oregon’s measles outbreak, biggest in five years, expands to six people

The outbreak comes amid others also involving a preventable disease – pertussis or whooping cough – which has infected more than 350 people in just over a dozen counties this year.

Jul 19, 2024

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Oregon joins nearly 30 states with illnesses linked to mushroom-derived candies

Nearly 60 people in 27 states – from the East Coast to the West – are part of the outbreak linked to microdosing products, federal officials said, and 30 have been hospitalized while one death is under investigation.

Jul 11, 2024

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Federal officials allow Oregon to offer Medicaid services to those behind bars

The new program aims to close health care gaps when people are released and tackle addiction problems

Jul 5, 2024

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Patients who contract measles, a highly contagious disease, develop a skin rash. | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Adult, child in Clackamas County have measles but there could be other cases

Oregon Health Authority officials said the two, who are in the same household, could have become infected in Marion County between May 19 and June 4

Jun 19, 2024

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SHUTTERSTOCK

More Oregon students are missing vaccines, worrying health officials

Oregon had the second highest nonmedical exemption rate in the country in the last school year — after only Idaho — and the rate of kindergartners with a nonmedical exemption has been going up

May 23, 2024

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State board allocates nearly $14 million for addiction prevention

The money is part of $600 million in opioid settlement funds the state is expected to receive over the next two decades

May 16, 2024

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More people buy private health insurance plans as thousands lose Medicaid coverage

They represent a small fraction of the tens of thousands of people who’ve lost free Medicaid benefits since last April

Apr 18, 2024

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The Oregon Health Authority in Salem. | OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY

Health authority launches website to ease abortion access as Supreme Court hears anti-abortion case

Health authority officials said the timing was not a coincidence and marks Oregon’s support for retaining wide access to abortions

Mar 27, 2024

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Many counterfeit pills containing fentanyl are indistinguishable from oxycodone. | U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

Addiction experts call on Legislature to step up funds for medication treatment of opioid misuse

Methadone is considered the gold standard in treating opioid misuse, and the state could use twice as many clinics as it has to address the demand, experts say

Feb 13, 2024