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Opinion: To measure Oregon’s psilocybin program’s impact, data must be collected

Sen. Elizabeth Steiner explains how her bill would help ensure the therapy program has safe and equitable results.

Jan 31, 2023
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Students at the OHSU School of Nursing Ashland Campus learn, practice and refine nursing skills at the campus’ Simulation and Clinical Learning Center. | COURTESY OF OHSU/ALLEN HALLMARK

Oregon colleges rethink approach to nursing educator gap

Programs like OHSU’s Oregon Nursing Education Academy aim to make education more accessible.

Jan 31, 2023
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Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is tentatively being absorbed by California-based Adventist Health. | PHOTO BY LARVICK MEDIA/COURTESY OF MCMC

Faith-based Adventist says it won’t eliminate reproductive services at Mid-Columbia

Its proposed absorption of Mid-Columbia Medical Center comes with promises, presenting a new test for Oregon’s merger law.

Jan 31, 2023
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FDA experts still puzzled over who should get which COVID shots and when

A panel of experts disagreed with the FDA’s proposal that everyone get at least one shot a year, saying more information was needed.

Jan 29, 2023

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OHSU vaccine study suggests too-frequent COVID boosters unhelpful

Researchers say viral respiratory immune response is strongest from vaccination once a year.

Jan 26, 2023

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More Californians are dying at home. Another COVID ‘new normal’?

More than 60% of cancer deaths in New Mexico, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah in 2021 occurred at home, the highest rates in the nation.

Jan 26, 2023

Vancouver resident Barbara Klausman and Dr. Aimee Pierce prepare for Klausman to get an infusion in November 2022. Klausman volunteered for the AHEAD study to learn more about her personal risk from Alzheimer's disease, which runs in her family. | AMELIA TEMPLETON/OPB

At OHSU, researchers test a promising Alzheimer’s drug — and search for a cause

Researchers at OHSU are contributing to a study exploring Alzheimer’s — and regular Oregonians are helping.

Jan 26, 2023

Emily Savage and Michael Daher, who manage Myrtle Drugs in Myrtle Creek, told the House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee during an online hearing on Jan. 24, 2023, that pharmacy benefit managers' business practices are destabilizing independent pharmacies. | SCREENGRABS VIA OLIS.OREGONLEGISLATURE.GOV/THE LUND REPORT