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Despite an encouraging national dip in the past year, overdose deaths are still on the rise in many Western states as the epicenter of the nation’s continuing crisis shifts toward the Pacific Coast, where deadly fentanyl and also methamphetamine are finding more victims.
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OHSU relies heavily on a single supplier, Baxter International, which suffered major damage to a critical North Carolina factory in Hurricane Helene.
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Though a large majority of public schools feed students free breakfast and lunch, 65 do not, something Democratic lawmakers hope to change.
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Jackson County has only one resource center for victims of domestic and sexual violence.
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Rehabilitating drug offenders is the focus of Jackson County deflections programs funded by a revision to Oregon Measure 110.
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Prop. 35 would take an existing tax on health insurance plans and use the money to increase payment to doctors and other providers who see Medi-Cal patients. Its supporters have raised $50 million, drawing from groups representing hospitals, doctors and insurers.
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The western spread of fentanyl continues to fuel regional variations in the number of people dying from drug overdoses, and Measure 110′s effects remain debated.
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Abortion is at the core of a state lawsuit against a Eureka hospital; towns are fed up with psilocybin; and the Redding rodeo grounds seek a new lease on life.
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California’s attorney general announced lawsuits against Providence St. Joseph Hospital for refusing to provide emergency medical care earlier this year.
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In vitro fertilization treatments often cost tens of thousands of dollars, making them too expensive for families whose insurance won’t cover them.
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Author Alice Driver exposes the underbelly of the meatpacking industry's abuse of poor and migrant workers in her explosive book.
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Sept 27 is the annual day to elevate national awareness of the ongoing battle against the spread of HIV/AIDS, which disproportionately afflicts gay and bisexual men.
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Amid a massive outbreak of avian botulism, a new duck hospital aims to address the problem in the Klamath Basin.
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The new Lang Family Mental Health Fund will help students in the Ashland, Talent and Phoenix School Districts over the next three years.