Healio covers a study about Oregon psilocybin services. Todd Korthuis, M.D., says, “When Oregon voters passed a ballot initiative in 2020 to permit state-licensed access to psilocybin services, our group of interdisciplinary researchers talked about the need to learn about the safety and outcomes of this first-in-the-nation initiative.”

Men’s Health covers Riddhi Mahajan’s Air Jordan 1 Low OG ‘Doernbecher’. OHSU’s Doernbecher Freestyle program lets young patients turn their stories into sneakers alongside Nike creative teams, with Nike donating 100% of retail profits from the collections to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

KXL-Radio covers the declaration of a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case. Arundhati Headrick, M.D., says, “I worked with several women who have a diagnosis of bipolar one disorder and they’re actually the women who are at high risk for postpartum psychosis. But there are absolutely some women who develop postpartum psychosis with no prior mental health history.”

A story in The Oregonian on the I-5 closure from Sept. 11 through early October mentions the impact on large employers such as OHSU. The university has been preparing employees and students for the closure since July.

Reports on social media claim that timing your meals with your circadian rhythm can have positive effects on everything from sleep to metabolic health to weight management. Andrew McHill, Ph.D., says, “In animal literature, when mice are eating at the wrong time, they gain more weight, even when they’re eating the same amount of calories. And they have all sorts of other issues.”

In a study published in Science, Robert Eil, M.D., along with investigators at the University of Cambridge, discovered that immune cells called T cells need small amounts of reactive oxygen species, or ROS, to effectively attack cancer. Eil says, “One of the surprising findings is that antioxidants aren't always beneficial in the context of cancer.”

The Lindsay Clancy case. Arundhati Headrick, M.D., says, “I worked with several women who have a diagnosis of bipolar one disorder and they’re actually the women who are at high risk for postpartum psychosis. But there are absolutely some women who develop postpartum psychosis with no prior mental health history.”

Bolts covers how funding cuts have threatened the work of community groups that work to support crime victims and prevent more violence. Programs such as Healing Hurt People, which has partnered with OHSU’s Gun Violence Prevention Center to study hospital-based responses to gun violence, is an example of this kind of intervention program. Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., says, “Slashing of all the federal funding of programs that didn’t meet the new administration’s priorities really sets us back by years in terms of being able to grow our team and our capacity to do that kind of work.”

In a HealthDay story on causes and outcomes of traumatic brain injuries, Ahmed Raslan, M.D., says, “We could reduce a lot of mortality from traumatic brain injuries in Oregon if we could make sure that frail people don't fall.”

The New York Times interviews Laurie King, Ph.D., for a story on aging and balance. She says, “I think probably the biggest misconception about balance is that there’s a magic bullet -- do a few exercises and you’ll be good to go.”