Deschutes County Public Health is urging residents to protect their health this holiday season by getting the flu vaccine. With celebrations bringing people together indoors, there’s an increased risk ...

The Oregon Health Authority is encouraging pregnant women and others in contact with infants to get vaccinated against ...

Oregon public health officials rebuked a federal panel’s new recommendation that only newborns with mothers who tested ...

New analysis shows hospitals' finances stayed stable after Oregon limited prices for its public employee health plans.

A public school teacher leads students to their classroom in New York City. Local and state officials are developing directives to support — or possibly thwart — potential visits by federal ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon public health leaders are denying Mehmet Oz’s claims that they have spent billions of federal dollars on “illegal immigrants.” In a social media post shared on Friday, ...

Overdose deaths in Oregon went down 22% in 2024, the Oregon Health Authority announced on Friday. The decrease in overdose deaths follows a nationwide trend of declining overdose deaths. In 2024, ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) announced that this week, three people who were infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) traveled to Oregon while they were sick ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fewer Oregon health care workers have received their influenza shots since COVID-19 first spread throughout the state. About 54% of the employees surveyed during the 2024-2025 ...

Every year, a group of Oregon health care professionals gathers for a grim exercise — reviewing every case in which a mother died during or soon after pregnancy. This past February, they reported a ...

Public health officials in Oregon announced on Wednesday the first known case of H5N1 bird flu in a pig, raising new concerns about the growing risk of the virus being able to infect humans more ...