Pregnant Oregonians need more addiction and mental health support — but the state’s network is fragile
Substance use and mental health disorders are driving more maternal deaths in Oregon than any other cause
Latest news (Page 57)
Can U.S. health authorities learn from BC’s experience with wildfire smoke?
British Columbia health specialists are ahead of their counterparts in the U.S. when it comes to anticipating sicknesses resulting from wildfire smoke.
Government, employers do little to protect outdoor workers from smoke
Government and employers do little to protect outdoor laborer such as farmworkers, mail carriers and construction crews from the effects of wildfire smoke.
Exposure to heat and wildfire smoke may harm babies, unborn infants
New research indicates that exposure to heat and other forms of pollution during pregnancy increases the risk of stillbirth and low birth weight.
How much smoke is too much? And... comparisons to Beijing are tricky
Health researchers know that wildfire smoke is bad for everyone and have an idea which groups of people are most vulnerable.
Washington housing foster care kids at state offices in record-breaking numbers
The number of times that state child-welfare workers housed foster children overnight in government offices has exploded, from six times in the last reporting period to 284.
Amid cries for racial justice, I-940 police reform lagging 2 years after passage
In 2018, Washington voters passed an initiative that made it easier to prosecute police officers who shoot civilians, required independent investigations of police use of force and mandated a new de-escalation training regimen.
Who Killed the Supergrid? Trump appointees short-circuited grid modernization to help the coal industry
In 2018, Trump appointees short-circuited U.S. grid modernization to help the coal industry by suppressing the Interconnections Seam Study.
COVID-19 spreads in WA’s foster-care group home system; operators fear state's wrath
With COVID-19 spreading into Washington’s system of foster care group homes, operators of the facilities say they are in a precarious position and fear “retaliation” by state child-welfare officials