public health

The Oregon Health Authority will soon start the process to search for a new insurance provider for more than 90,000 low-income Lane County PacificSource members. The agency must decide whether to allow a new insurer to move in, or let the remaining company, Trillium Community Health, take over health coverage for low-income residents.

The city of Sweet Home will stop adding fluoride to its drinking water this month.

The Oregon Health Authority has confirmed the state’s first measles case of 2025.

Nearly 10% of Oregon kindergartners have a non-medical exemption to some or all of the vaccines that are required to attend school. That’s according to numbers released Thursday by the Oregon Health Authority.

This week's speakers illustrate the powerful potential to create healthy and thriving communities and how prevention is working here, in Lane County, to promote health and wellness, every day.

Bird flu has infected chickens, cows, house cats and at least one pig in Oregon.

The Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality alert for southern and central Oregon, where wildfires are blazing.

The Oregon Health Authority on Thursday, June 6, lifted a public health advisory for contact with ocean water at D River Beach, in Lincoln County.

Whooping cough cases in Lane County have doubled in the last week. Health officials are urging the public to take precautions.

Health officials say they’ve identified at least 19 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in Lane County. The true case count is likely much higher.

Marijuana in Oregon can no longer be recalled over a pathogenic mold, until a court decides if the state’s zero-tolerance policy went too far.

The state of Oregon is launching a public health campaign that warns against the dangers of excessive alcohol use.