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Ozempic insulin injection pen. | NATALIA VARLEI/SHUTTERSTOCK

High price of popular diabetes drugs deprives low-income people of effective treatment

Supply shortages and insurance hurdles for a powerful class of drugs have left many people who are suffering from diabetes without the medicine they need to stay healthy

May 23, 2024

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More Oregon students are missing vaccines, worrying health officials

Oregon had the second highest nonmedical exemption rate in the country in the last school year — after only Idaho — and the rate of kindergartners with a nonmedical exemption has been going up

May 23, 2024

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, center, speaks about the multibillion-dollar advertising campaigns on behalf of Medicare Advantage plans during an event Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, sponsored by the Urban League of Portland at the Hattie Redmond Apartments in North Portland. | PETER WONG/©PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP USED HERE WITH PERMISSION

Wyden wants to know how Pfizer cut its U.S. tax bill despite booming sales

Pifzer is the latest company to come under scrutiny by the Senate Finance Committee and Oregon’s senior U.S. senator as they look into pharmaceutical company tax practices

May 23, 2024
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Independent Santiam hospital seeks to join Samaritan Health Services

Nonprofit Stayton hospital would merge into Corvallis chain

May 23, 2024
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An AMR ambulance at Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Multnomah County retracts claim that overdoses led to lower cardiac arrest survival rates in 2023

County officials attributed a drop in the survival rate of cardiac arrest patients to drug overdoses. The explanation made sense considering Oregon's rising number of overdoses, but it was wrong.

May 23, 2024

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Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas Panhandle

Veterinarians, farmers and state officials are looking at how the outbreak has spread to at least eight other states

May 23, 2024

Kevin Heinrich a licensed practical nurse at a workstation at Mirabella Portland’s skilled nursing facility. Nurses and other health care workers have become increasingly hard to find after the pandemic. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

New report too rosy about Oregon’s nursing homes, their lobbying group says

A new study ranks Oregon among the states best-positioned to meet new federal staffing rules for nursing homes. But a state lobbying group says it glosses over a new requirement of of 24-hour nurse coverage that will be tough to meet

May 21, 2024
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The lure of specialty medicine pulls nurse practitioners from primary care

Increasingly, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are joining cardiology, dermatology, and other specialty practices, causing fears over what the trend could mean for primary care

May 21, 2024

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A cot and medical supplies fill an ambulance. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/ANNA DEL SAVIO (USED WITH PERMISSION)

County delayed action over AMR response times, ombudsman finds

A new report found that Multnomah County Ombudsman leadership failed to hold American Medical Response accountable for its slow ambulance response times prior to March 2022.

May 21, 2024
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