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OHSU and Legacy Health merger plan taking longer than expected

The Portland Tribune December 07, 2023
OHSU and Legacy Health expect to present a definitive agreement to their boards in early 2024. “A tremendous amount of work has been happening during the due diligence process, including reviewing thousands of contracts and leases, conducting interviews with Legacy leaders and much more,” OHSU says in a statement.

With youth overdose death rates soaring, Oregon offers free opioid reversal medication to schools

Oregon Public Broadcasting December 07, 2023
Local media cover testimony by Todd Korthuis, M.D., during a hearing about Measure 110, with a focus on fentanyl, held by the Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response. Korthuis describes how fentanyl works and says, “All of this leads to a much more addictive opioid than we’ve seen before, and that results in longer and more intense withdrawal symptoms and makes it more difficult to stay in recovery.”

$20,000 monkeys: inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals

The Guardian December 07, 2023
Jonah Sacha, Ph.D., says a shortage of nonhuman primates is adversely impacting human health research, and says expanding domestic nonhuman primate breeding programs in the U.S. can help address this: “We shouldn’t be reliant on external countries for these animals that are really critical to our ability to test new therapeutics and vaccines and medicines.”

Landslide in Portland closes one of the roads to OHSU

KGW-TV December 06, 2023
Heavy rains cause a landslide that blocks a portion of S.W. U.S. Veterans Hospital Road on the Marquam Hill campus. The road was closed for much of the day while Portland Bureau of Transportation crews worked to clear it.

Wednesday morning slide closes road near OHSU

KOIN-TV December 06, 2023
Heavy rains cause a landslide that blocks a portion of S.W. U.S. Veterans Hospital Road on the Marquam Hill campus. The road was closed for much of the day while Portland Bureau of Transportation crews worked to clear it.

Legacy, OHSU merger agreement still in the works

Becker's Hospital CFO Report December 06, 2023
OHSU and Legacy Health expect to present a definitive agreement to their boards in early 2024. “A tremendous amount of work has been happening during the due diligence process, including reviewing thousands of contracts and leases, conducting interviews with Legacy leaders and much more,” OHSU says in a statement.

Oregon officials looking into medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction

KEZI-TV December 06, 2023
Local media cover testimony by Todd Korthuis, M.D., during a hearing about Measure 110, with a focus on fentanyl, held by the Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response. Korthuis describes how fentanyl works and says, “All of this leads to a much more addictive opioid than we’ve seen before, and that results in longer and more intense withdrawal symptoms and makes it more difficult to stay in recovery.”

Some want repeal. Others want tweaks. But nobody seems to want the status quo in the drug crisis.

Oregon Capital Chronicle December 06, 2023
Local media cover testimony by Todd Korthuis, M.D., during a hearing about Measure 110, with a focus on fentanyl, held by the Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response. Korthuis describes how fentanyl works and says, “All of this leads to a much more addictive opioid than we’ve seen before, and that results in longer and more intense withdrawal symptoms and makes it more difficult to stay in recovery.”
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