1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (737+ words) Grants Pass Tribune Get the latest FREE edition of Grants Pass Tribune. The Hidden Organism That Shapes Development and Shadows the Brain for a Lifetime For decades, the conversation around congenital deformities and neurodegenerative disease has been framed almost entirely…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (532+ words) Southern Oregon’s long-running hospital staffing battle has reached the state Capitol, where nurses and other medical professionals are pressing legislators to intervene as penalties against Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center have climbed to $1,564,250 under Oregon’s hospital staffing law. Southern Oregon…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (554+ words) A decades-old framework governing how Americans with disabilities receive publicly funded services is moving into Oregon’s political arena as members of the Senate Human Services Committee examine changes in the federal government’s approach to the landmark Olmstead decision and what…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (534+ words) Two Southern Oregon hospitals have secured national recognition for health care quality, patient service and community access, placing medical centers in Medford and Grants Pass among hospitals receiving honors from two prominent national publications. Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (318+ words) America’s weight-loss business has found its most powerful product in decades, and the rush to capitalize on it has created a marketplace where legitimate medicine, compounded alternatives and aggressive advertising increasingly compete for the same consumer. The issue has become…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (376+ words) Nine neonatologists who spent years caring for Southern Oregon’s most medically vulnerable newborns are no longer practicing under their former arrangement at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, leaving the region’s only neonatal intensive care unit operating under a changing physician…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (608+ words) Grants Pass Tribune Get the latest FREE edition of Grants Pass Tribune. Rebuilding the Body After Fentanyl: Understanding the Role of Botanical Support in Recovery Fentanyl exerts a profound impact on the human body, binding to opioid receptors with high…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (520+ words) Oregon has established a statewide prescription pathway for the updated COVID-19 vaccine, allowing pharmacies and other authorized providers to begin administering the 2026–27 formulation as respiratory illness season approaches and vaccine shipments arrive across the state. The order was signed by…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (420+ words) Modern science has provided a clearer picture of why cannabis produces such wide-ranging effects. The plant contains hundreds of chemical compounds, including cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids and other biologically active substances. Among the best known are tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, cannabidiol, or…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (661+ words) Cyanobacteria are affecting waterways across Southern Oregon, with active state precautions or advisories now posted from Jackson and Douglas counties into the Klamath Basin as a striking bloom on Portland’s Willamette River adds another major waterway to Oregon’s expanding late-summer…...