Amelia Templeton

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries has settled with Legacy Health over complaints related to rest and meal breaks for nurses.

The drop in survival affected a much broader group of patients than the county EMS medical director had said — and could be related to slow ambulance service that year.

Over the past year, Multnomah County has used one key metric to defend the quality of its ambulance system: the survival rate of people who are revived by paramedics after their heart stops pumping, a condition known as cardiac arrest.

Antibiotics are effective against pertussis, but there’s a catch: They only work when they’re given early in the course of the illness.

Federal investigators point to gaps in the state’s mental health system in death of Skye Baskin

SALEM — Whooping cough is spreading again in Oregon, with 178 cases reported so far across nine counties.

Thirty-six pharmacies closed last year, and several more have closed so far in 2024.

Pharmacist Evan Layton gives a vaccination at the Hillsboro Pharmacy and Fountain in May 2021. The pharmacy closed two years later.

Oregon has the second fewest retail pharmacies per capita in the nation — with poorer access to pharmacies than any state except Alaska, according to a new analysis by the Associated Press.

More than 3,000 nurses at six Providence hospitals across the state are set to go on strike for three days next week. In an unusual turn of events, they’re striking in part over the rollout of a law that was hailed just two years ago as a major win for the nurses union and the first of its kind in the nation.