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Overdose death in Oregon went down 22% in 2024, the Oregon Health Authority announced on Friday, following a nationwide trend ...
A bill that passed a key committee vote in Congress this week would add a work requirement for some on Medicaid and would ...
A record 9.7% of Oregon kindergartners claimed nonmedical exemptions for the 2024-25 school year, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
This comes after the Oregon Health Authority reported on a staggering 30% increase in fatal overdoses in 2023.
A record 9.7% of kindergartners claimed nonmedical exemptions from Oregon’s school vaccination requirements for the 2024-2025 ...
The parents of 9.7% of Oregon kindergartners have claimed non-medical exemptions for their children during the 2024-2025 - a record high for the state.
A total of 13.7% of kindergarteners were not fully vaccinated this year, 9.7% for nonmedical reasons, marking three straight ...
Nearly half of Oregon Humanities' $2.46 million budget in 2024 came from the National Endowment for the Humanities—and ...
Oregon has the fourth-highest nonmedical exemption rate in the US, leaving communities vulnerable to vaccine-preventable ...
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Multnomah County Health Department on Thursday confirmed one case of tuberculosis at Lane Middle ...
Nearly one in 10 Oregon kindergartners aren’t fully vaccinated because their parents asked for nonmedical vaccine exemptions.