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How do abortion pills work? Answers to frequently asked questions

Some basic answers about abortion pills based on information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and from groups that closely track the latest medical advice and scientific evidence

Sep 17, 2024

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Decades of national suicide prevention policies haven’t slowed the deaths

Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise. A chorus of researchers and experts say the interventions will work — but that they’re simply not being adopted by state and local governments

Sep 17, 2024

The front desk of ARCHES Inn in Salem, a hotel turned shelter that is operated by Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action. The facility offers wildfire survivors, as well as chronically homeless and medically fragile people a short-term stay. Settings like this could be part of addressing delays in hospital discharges in Oregon. | COURTESY/MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION

Solutions floated for Oregon’s hospital boarding problem

Using hospitals to hold people who don’t need to be in a hospital is having ripple effects across the state’s health care system

Sep 12, 2024
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More than a dozen cities will ask their voters if they want to ban psilocybin

Despite national interest in Oregon's first-in-the-nation law legalizing the supervised use of psilocybin, sixteen local jurisdictions spread across the state are contemplating either permanent or temporary bans on the use of the naturally occurring psychedelic

Sep 12, 2024

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Study finds prevalence of firearms is driving soaring gun deaths in U.S. – not mental illness

OHSU researchers compared the U.S. to 40 countries and found that Americans are 20 times more likely to die by firearms, even with a similar rate of mental health illness

Sep 12, 2024

As respiratory illnesses cause increasing strain on hospitals in Oregon and Washington, PeaceHealth officials are telling people not to come to the emergency room at Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver if at all possible. | COURTESY OF PEACEHEALTH

At Catholic hospitals, a mission of charity runs up against high care costs for patients

Many Catholic health systems, which are tax-exempt, pay their executives millions and can charge some of the highest prices around — while critics say they scrimp on commitments to their communities.

Sep 12, 2024

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OHSU, Legacy report new losses as merger bid looms

Two hospital systems want to form a new Oregon power player and promised no immediate layoffs while arguing a merger will help improve their financial fortunes

Sep 12, 2024
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US uninsured rate was stable in 2023, even as states’ Medicaid purge began

About 8% of Americans lacked health insurance in 2023, the Census Bureau announced. But its report doesn’t capture the effect of states winnowing their Medicaid rolls by millions of people since the pandemic emergency ended.

Sep 12, 2024

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Justice department sues Measure 110 grantee for second time, citing land deal

The state Department of Justice and the Oregon Health Authority have filed a second lawsuit against the Klamath Falls provider Red is the Road to Wellness, expanding debt collection efforts to include property sold by the nonprofit for half of its purchase price to a former employee

Sep 10, 2024
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Patients who contract measles, a highly contagious disease, develop a skin rash. | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Largest Oregon measles outbreak in 30 years endangers kids, expert says

Every one of the 31 measles cases reported in Oregon as of Monday surfaced in people who had not received the MMR vaccine, according to an OHSU pediatrician

Sep 10, 2024

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