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Four years after the first Trump administration required hospitals and insurers to disclose charges and payments, it's unclear if the change is leading to lower health care costs

Fentanyl drove the biggest spike in Multnomah County deaths, according to the health department

A high-profile, legislatively-mandated Oregon health insurance website contracting process was scrapped after an Oregon Health Authority consultant evaluating bids was linked to one of the bidders. Now state officials are trying to get things back on track.

A legislative task force studying the public health impacts of alcohol abuse and whether to raise alcohol taxes for addiction treatment has ended its work without endorsing any specific recommendations.

Experts, including those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stress that the current risk to the general public is low. However, flu viruses can evolve, and the CDC rates the bird flu’s potential to adapt for sustained human-to-human transmission as “moderate.

The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.

The outpouring of anger at health insurers following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson continues a cycle of rage that dates back decades.

The suit alleges that the retail pharmacy giant set staffing levels so low that pharmacists could not comply with their legal obligations while meeting the company's demanding metrics

A new staffing law sparked a slew of complaints, driven in part by disagreement over its meaning. So far it’s unclear whether lawmakers plan to revisit it.

Much-criticized court order is no longer doing enough to ease the state's problem with lack of psychiatric beds, but supporters say it's better than nothing as the state continues to regularly violate a decades- old civil rights ruling