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The suit alleges a nurse swapped pain medication with tap water, causing infection and death in a patient.
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Residents all over the state have felt the impacts of wildfire smoke. A new report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office offers suggestions for legislators to respond.
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It's a lot easier to say the acronym "STEMI" than to pronounce what it stands for: ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.It's the most severe kind of heart…
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The recent triple-digit temperatures across the region arrived with plenty of warnings and advice for how to protect ourselves from heat-related health…
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Portland's Sarahjoy Marsh meets a fair number of people with eating and body-image issues. And her approach to healing involves using the body itself as…
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Watching a double-amputee run in the Olympics three years ago proved the quality of modern prosthetics. They are a far cry from the wooden legs of ages…
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California is seeing more cases of whooping cough (pertussis) than at any time in the last 70 years. And Jackson County on the Oregon side is seeing more…
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Not the news anybody was hoping for: this influenza season could be a bad one. The federal Centers for Disease Control made the announcement recently.…
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Trauma tends to have effects that last long after the traumatic incident in a person's life. Witness the recognition in modern times of PTSD, Post…
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Spinal cords get special attention in the month of September, because it is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. Jason Roy works to spread the awareness.…
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Andrea Caesar is not alone in suffering the effects of Lyme Disease. The tick-borne illness affects at least 30,000 people a year. But the disease can be…
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By early June, California already had more cases of pertussis (whooping cough) than in all of last year.Translation: there's a whooping cough epidemic in…
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There are so many ways to damage a human body. And a whole lot of ways to fix bodies, too. Asante Ashland Community Hospital just won an award for the…
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March 25 is Diabetes Alert Day across the country. For more than a quarter of a century, Americans have used this day to get tested to see if they are at…