Pharmacy Practice News covers how pharmacists can take a trauma-informed approach to addressing social drivers of health that can help mitigate the chronic adverse outcomes that formative events cause later in life quotes Marie Chisholm-Burns, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., who says, “Safety creates opportunities for survivors to build a sense of control and empowerment.”

The Lund Report covers a grant obtained by the Oregon Office of Rural Health at OHSU to create a mobile integrated health program in Wheeler County. It will include emergency and community health specialists who will visit people in their home, assess their needs and help them with safety, nutrition, medication and chronic disease management, mobility and other issues. Sarah Andersen, M.P.H., says “If we can make it work in Wheeler County, we believe that we can make it work in any rural community in Oregon.”

A study led by Brooke Shafer, Ph.D., found that people recovering from heart failure should consider improving the regularity of their sleep. The research team found that even moderately irregular sleep doubles the risk of having another clinical event within six months.

A study led by Brooke Shafer, Ph.D., found that people recovering from heart failure should consider improving the regularity of their sleep. The research team found that even moderately irregular sleep doubles the risk of having another clinical event within six months.

A story by the American Heart Association on Matthew Kampfe, Brain Rehab Network president, being appointed to lead the annual Heart and Stroke Walk quotes Anthony Mulholland, M.N., R.N., who says: “The Heart and Stroke Walk gives Portland and Vancouver residents and employees an extraordinary opportunity to address a critical issue in our community.”

Continued coverage of Phil and Penny Knight’s record-breaking $2 billion gift, the largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university or academic medical center, to transform the future of cancer care.

Hans India covers a presentation by Sanjay Malhotra, Ph.D., who says cancer care poses a significant economic burden on countries.

A small, preliminary study links marathon running and increased colon cancer risk. David Lieberman, M.D., says the study is provocative and calls for more research: “It tells us there’s a signal here. We wouldn’t have expected these rates of high-risk adenomas, which are cancer precursor lesions, in an age group like this.”

The New York Times covers new research revealing a correlation between marathon and ultramarathon running and the presence of polyps and advanced adenomas. David Lieberman, M.D., says, “It tells us there’s a signal here. We wouldn’t have expected these rates of high-risk adenomas, which are cancer precursor lesions, in an age group like this.”

A National Geographic story exploring how human hibernation could revolutionize medicine and get us to Mars highlights the discovery of a “torpor switch” in non-hibernating animals confirmed in a January publication by Domenico Tupone, Ph.D., Shaun Morrison, Ph.D., and colleagues. Tupone says, “It is like you have all the cables inside your walls to turn on a light but lost the ability to trigger the switch. We think humans have all the circuitry to induce torpor and now we are a step forward into the path to reactivate the switch.”