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(The Center Square) - Nutrition education for medical students will become more prominent in curriculum beginning this upcoming fall.
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Free news: Following an extensive search process, the City of Hood River has selected Michael (Josh) Rogers as its new fire chief.
Free news: Cherry Blossom Respite has launched its dementia-specific respite care program, made possible through a grant from the Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI).
THE GORGE — A public bus from the Columbia River’s in-lieu fishing sites to Wishram is helping some Indigenous people find stable housing. But even so, it’s still a choice between living at a fishing site, or walking their kids across a highway to school, said Gorge Transit Mobility Manger Kathy Fitzpatrick at a January The Dalles Community Affairs meeting.
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(The Center Square) – Medical group Do No Harm released a report Tuesday that it says debunks a study on racial concordance, with a Do No Harm leader stating that matching a patient with a doctor of the same race does not improve medical outcomes.
Free news: Hood River County School District (HRCSD) is enrolling kindergarten and new students for the 2026-27 school year. Families with children who will be 5 years old by Sept. 1 are eligible to enroll their children at their neighborhood school within HRCSD.
Free commentary: Provision 8.2 of the Nurses Code of Ethics is clear: “Where there are human rights violations, nurses ought to and must stand up for those rights and demand accountability.” That is why we are speaking out.
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump and senior health administration officials touted the $50 billion set aside in the One Big Beautiful Bill for rural health care during a round table Friday, saying it will transform the care available to rural Americans.
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(The Center Square) – The Trump administration’s commitment to healthcare price transparency has been met by praise from advocacy groups, with the organizations stating such a move is “imperative” and what Americans deserve.
THE GORGE — Public bus routes now stretch from Parkdale, The Dalles, and Golendale to Portland and most towns in between, with free passes for low-income and elderly residents and for downtown The Dalles.
