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<p>Five prominent Oregon hospitals do worse than the national average on a key measure of patient safety.</p>

Oregon, typically a progressive state, releases much less data about the quality and safety of its hospitals in at least one important database.

<p>While many states make information related to medical care complications public, Oregon does not. That means that the best information about an individual hospital’s quality and safety may be kept from the public.</p>

<p>Journalist Kate Long examines how some West Virginians are changing their lifestyles to drop pounds and reduce their risk of diabetes and other obesity-related diseases. West Virginia has one of the highest chronic disease rates in the nation.</p>

<p>An ambitious plan to reverse New York’s growing prescription drug epidemic is causing a rift between legislators and health care providers, pitting a proposed computer system that would require doctors and pharmacists to meticulously scan patients’ medical history for patterns of abuse against arguments by two professional associations that increased monitoring would backfire.</p>

<p>The size of a toddler, the organ damage of a 90 year old and the mind of a teenager.</p>

<p>None of her yoga-teacher training quite prepared Sariane Leigh for leading her first classes in Washington east of the Anacostia River five years ago.</p>