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The Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living keeps its focus on treating the root causes of addiction
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State workplace safety officials plan to protect employees from indoor heat this summer. But due to cost concerns, a separate rule is in the works for state prisons that will take more time.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the first-ever national drinking water standards for chemicals known as PFAS. Announced April 10, those rules will impact Oregon.
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Even before the ruling, confusion about abortion restrictions brought Arizona patients, and others, to California health care providers, straining some facilities’ staff.
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Oregon Health & Science University is expanding its program that prepares students for nursing careers on an accelerated schedule to Bend.
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Medical residents have a grueling job, typically working 60 to 80 hours a week. Now, early-career doctors at several California hospitals are forming unions as they press for better pay and working conditions.
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Federal and state regulators are mulling what they can do to thwart the growing problem. Rogue health insurance brokers are switching consumers' plans without permission and collecting the commission.
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The state’s licensing officials waited nearly one month after her death to enter the care facility, according to a damning investigation released by the Oregon long-term care ombudsman this week.
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Felicia Kornbluh book A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.
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Experts say the Opill will help young people, those who can’t regularly see a health care provider, and women whose prescriptions run out.
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Despite a law mandating that they offer the pills, many campus health clinics don't publicize that they have them, leaving students struggling to track them down off-campus.
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Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.
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As Oregon moves closer to limiting prescription drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry has stepped up its efforts targeting the state board that could set those limits.
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The hack has leaders in health care considering the risks posed by consolidation and vertical integration in the health care industry.