Joel Nigg, a clinical psychologist at Oregon Health & Science University, has identified a number of different subtypes within the A.D.H.D. population.

LabRoots highlights an OHSU study that found prenatal cannabis exposure can potentially harm fetal lung development and function.

The OHSU School of Nursing holds a community action poverty simulation to help create broader awareness of the reality of poverty and improve understanding among health care workers of the issues low-income families face.

OHSU research finds that binaural pitch fusion, a process that involves merging different pitches from each ear into a single sound, is one type of central hearing processing that may still be developing in pre-adolescent children.

Research from a team of investigators at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has found that alpha-synuclein (αSyn), a protein long associated with neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease, also plays a direct role in the development of melanoma by enhancing DNA repair in cancer cells.

OHSU research find a small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson’s disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma. Vivek Unni, M.D., Ph.D., says, “Developing drugs that target alpha-synuclein may be useful in both diseases.”

Since its inception in 2009, OHSU’s online nursing degree program has launched more than1,400 graduates’ careers in nursing.

Rajat Thawani, MBBS, leads a panel on considerations for tyrosine kinase inhibitor selection and sequencing in the first and second lines of treatment for patients with stage IIIB to IV ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer at the CancerNetwork “Meeting of the Minds” program. Thawani says, “Broadly the metabolic and neuropsychiatric [adverse] effects, both of them [can be] challenging in lorlatinib, but it seems like with holds and temporary discontinuations, you can get it under control”

The Oregonian writes about limited access to primary care in the Portland-metro area, in part due to a limited number of family medicine physicians. Deb Cohen, Ph.D., says, “It’s a labor economics issue. Family medicine physicians, in particular, carry a pretty heavy debt from medical school … they make significantly less money than a specialist would, and their workload is greater.”

In coverage of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeking to analyze and explain evidence on medical marijuana, Marijuana Moment mentions a website collaboration by the VA and OHSU designed to help clinicians and researchers evaluate the latest evidence around the health effects of cannabis.