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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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Salem Health will stop accepting Regence insurance over contract impasse

Both sides said the other was to blame for unreasonable contract demands that could disrupt care for up to 30,000 people

Feb 20
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Hospitals want reimbursement for boarding psychiatric patients

Local health authorities say the move would cost them more and further confuse the question of who’s responsible for patients committed by a judge

Feb 20
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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