A type of fungus, C. auris spreads easily in hospitals and bears a high mortality rate for those infected. Less than half of Oregon’s hospitals screen for it. The vote comes amid a big change at ...

The Trump administration has hinged federal funding for states on whether they end or loosen powerful but controversial laws ...

Birth centers are an option for those with low-risk pregnancies and are correlated with more positive health outcomes, but 10 ...

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Sen. Lisa Reynolds, a Democrat from Portland who works as a pediatrician, introduced the doula laws as advocates for medical ...

Small Doses is a semi-regular column that rounds up news briefs and scuttlebutt related to health care in Oregon and southwest W ...

A type of fungus, C. auris spreads easily in hospitals and bears a high mortality rate for those infected. Less than half of ...

The vote means that primary care doctors, physician associates and nurse practitioners at 24 Samaritan clinics across the ...

The Oregon Supreme Court has upheld a Washington County ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, vapes and hookahs. In a unanimous opinion Thursday, the ...

Many of the panel members are new appointees with financial stakes in the peptide industry. In an email, Department of Health ...

CareOregon dropped a provider that offers therapy to young people in lower-income families around the state, and now Stronger ...

Stacy Garrity, the GOP’s candidate in Pennsylvania, has said during her campaign that she would “respect” the state’s current ...