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Costa Rica's public hospitals face severe overcrowding, with patients waiting up to eight days for beds as CCSS audits reveal staffing shortages. The Tico Times What would most…
3 posts ·Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a rule allowing specialty compounding pharmacies to sell six peptide drugs, overruling FDA scientists who say there is…
7 posts ·The City of Vancouver will open a 120-bed shelter at the end of November, its largest city-run site, made up of two buildings with on-site support services. KGW What should a…
2 posts ·Colorado's Medicaid program is preparing to implement new work requirements and shorter renewal periods beginning next year. Colorado Newsline How can the state keep eligible…
1 post ·CalMatters reports that California's latest homelessness numbers show a decline, but the count is still up over Gov. Gavin Newsom's two terms. CalMatters What explains a decline…
1 post ·The Washington State Department of Agriculture confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in two Yakima County dairy herds in early October and reported it in Benton County on…
1 post ·The Africa CDC's director general, Dr Jean Kaseya, called the Ebola outbreak "unprecedented", with the case count at 10,000 and almost 5,000 deaths, and warned it could reach the…
1 post ·Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have passed 10,000, with the health ministry reporting 10,060 cases and 4,887 deaths in what Al Jazeera calls the…
3 posts ·Ars Technica reports that South Carolina's measles outbreak has spread to Washington state five times in two weeks, and that domestic travel, rather than international travel, is…
3 posts ·Eli Lilly says its "triple-G" drug retatrutide beat Novo Nordisk's Ozempic in a diabetes study, adding to expectations that it will be one of Lilly's biggest growth drivers, STAT…
3 posts ·A City Ombudsman survey of 228 people who stayed at Portland's nine village-style shelters found more than half said staff did not handle grievances or other issues well, OPB…
1 post ·OPB reports that Oregon's next governor will have to lead the state through cuts to the Oregon Health Plan, set in motion by last year's federal tax and spending bill, yet…
1 post ·A new Gresham clinic offering methadone, buprenorphine and counseling for opioid use disorder opened with a $1.8 million state investment, the Oregon Health Authority said…
1 post ·Gov. Tina Kotek announced a state of emergency at Bend-La Pine Schools and the High Desert Education Service District on Monday, which lets them set aside state requirements such…
1 post ·Researchers at OHSU have completed the first rigorous study of Oregon's psilocybin therapy program, which began more than three years ago. OPB What would you want a study of a…
1 post ·A nurse was killed in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in DR Congo, after local youths reportedly accused the health workers of contaminating water sources and…
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