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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 has taken a side job in California

Stanford University is touting its hire of Hathi, a prominent state official and a physician, to see patients at its teaching hospital. It's a paid position, but Hathi said she is talking to the university about how to avoid receiving compensation.

Feb 19
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Atlanta, Georgia. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate

Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.

Feb 18

A reporter receives the five-needle protocol, an acupuncture method that has seen renewed interest for purportedly reducing cravings and helping people in recovery. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon lawmakers look to acupuncture to ease addiction crisis

Research into the “five-needle protocol” is inconclusive, but backers say it provides a low-cost way to help people struggling with addiction, especially in marginalized communities.

Feb 18
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As states mull Medicaid work requirements, two with experience scale back

As a second Trump administration reignites interest in work requirements, Georgia is proposing to scale back key parts of the nation’s only active program, and Arkansas announced fundamental changes to its earlier model

Feb 15

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown speaks outside the federal courthouse in Seattle where a judge sided with his office, temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s order to stop federal funding for facilities that provide gender-affirming care to young people. | PHOTO BY JAKE GOLDSTEIN-STREET

Seattle judge blocks Trump order on gender-affirming care

This case was filed last week by Washington, Oregon and Minnesota, along with three anonymous doctors representing themselves and their patients

Feb 15

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Opinion: OHSU-Legacy merger would improve specialty care for children with heart disease, others

Higher volume centers provide better care, and the proposed deal would eliminate barriers that hurt outcomes, two OHSU pediatric cardiologists say

Feb 15

A view of OHSU's South Waterfront campus from its main campus on Marquam Hill. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici join OHSU scientists to raise alarms over medical research cuts, others

A Trump administration effort to trim existing medical grants would carve as much as $80 million from Oregon Health & Science University, block life-saving research and cost jobs, critics say. Members of Oregon's congressional delegation want the public to speak out.

Feb 14

Jim Lussier, longtime CEO of St. Charles Health, passed away Jan. 31. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

Longtime St. Charles CEO Jim Lussier dies at 82

Lussier spent 38 years at St. Charles Health System, the last years 15 as CEO.

Feb 13
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Picket line near Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Jan. 28, 2025. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

More than 4,000 striking Providence nurses will lose health coverage on March 1

Oregon's largest hospital system cited the length of the strike in a notice to nurses who've walked out from eight hospitals. The union accused Providence of delaying after members voted down a tentative deal.

Feb 13