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A new pilot program is offering free Medicaid benefits to about 4,000 19- and 20-year-olds with intellectual, physical or mental disabilities or certain mental or medical conditions like asthma and diabetes.

Thousands of nurses at Oregon’s Providence hospitals are heading into their second week of a walk-out. Negotiations over a new contract are going slowly and Providence says it's "prepared for a lengthy strike."

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 signed a law allowing California to manufacture its own insulin, an effort to bring down the cost of the drug. The project is years away from delivering medicine to anyone, although prices have fallen for other reasons.

The Providence hospital system said it’s ready to begin scheduling negotiations with nurses at six out of its eight hospitals. Thousands of the company’s nurses are currently on strike.

Oregon’s Providence hospitals and nearly 5,000 of its workers have yet to agree on terms to bump wages and address staffing shortages.

Oregon Health & Science Institute's online training program is reaching more Oregon professionals in healthcare and law enforcement.

Oregonians’ health care could face more change than most states under the new federal administration, and Dr. Sejal Hathi, director of the state health authority, said officials are preparing to respond quickly as things happen.

California public schools will expand alcohol education in 2025 thanks to a new law. The law’s author, Wendy Carrillo, wrote the legislation following her DUI arrest, saying she didn’t want students to make the same mistakes she did.

Just days after 5,000 Providence nurses and doctors announced plans to strike, the health care organization says it wants to return to mediation with doctors and other advanced practitioners who are planning to walk out.

Two states legalized psychedelic therapies since 2020 and President Biden signed a law supporting studies of how they might help veterans. Proposals like those keep dying in California.

In 2024, Oregon recorded the highest number of whooping cough cases, also known as pertussis, since 1950.

Guests Heidi Pendergast and Emma Knighton discuss the use of the psychedelic Psilocybin in the treatment of mental illness, primarily long-term depression, anxiety, and trauma.