Coverage of stop-work orders from the federal government for research projects in Oregon notes that for researchers who haven’t received such orders, losing funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health would have devastating financial impacts. Lillian Raley, M.S., says, “We haven’t seen a lot of manifestations yet of what’s to come. There’s just been a lot of anxiety about trying to extrapolate out where your funding source comes from and if it’s cut, can we find other ways of supporting it? There’s not a lot of answers right now, just a lot of anxiety."

Adventist Health Columbia Gorge and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute have signed an agreement to provide collaborative cancer care at Celilo Cancer Center in The Dalles, Oregon. “The Knight Cancer Institute’s vision to eliminate the burden of cancer includes a commitment to team-based approaches for providing individualized care. We welcome opportunities to make it easier for more Oregonians to access the care they need most in their community,” says Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D.

ADDitude covers a study that finds cognitive-aerobic exercise improves working memory more than aerobic exercise alone in children and adolescents with ADHD. Joel Nigg, Ph.D., says, “For developing children, aerobic exercise expands the growth of brain connections, the frontal cortex, and the brain chemicals (such as serotonin and dopamine) that support self-regulation and executive functioning. These surprisingly specific findings in typically developing children have led to excitement about the possibility that the right kind of exercise can help ADHD.”

In an Infectious Disease: Special Edition story about improving treatments for multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria, James Lewis, Pharm.D., says, “The issue that we run up against in conventional antibacterial drugs is that we’re still pretty slow at it, and the bugs are much faster about figuring out ways around the antimicrobials than we are at developing new antibiotics to deal with these more resistant organisms as they emerge.”

KDRV-TV (Medford) covers Klamath Falls high school students touring an OHSU nursing school through the On Track OHSU! program. During the tour they visited stations about blood pressure, burn cleaning and impaired vision.

In media coverage of a Multnomah County Health Department report about the rise of dysentery cases in the area, John Townes, M.D., says, “If you want to stop an outbreak of shigella, you give people toilets and soap and water. And you train them in how to wash their hands.”

Adventist Health Columbia Gorge and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute have signed an agreement to provide collaborative cancer care at Celilo Cancer Center in The Dalles, Oregon. “The Knight Cancer Institute’s vision to eliminate the burden of cancer includes a commitment to team-based approaches for providing individualized care. We welcome opportunities to make it easier for more Oregonians to access the care they need most in their community,” says Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D.

In a story about proposed state legislation around the country to reduce the influence of corporate influence of health care decision making by physicians, The Wall Street Journal cites a 2023 study by Jane Zhu, M.D., and co-authors suggesting that existing state bans on corporate medicine dating back a century “have little practical effect” and should be strengthened.

Native American medical leaders were taken aback to see 22% fewer American Indian or Alaska Native students had enrolled last year when numbers were released in January.

In a story from Scientific American, Jae Corman, Ph.D., comments on a new study looking at the emotional health of transgender youth after taking hormones: “This adds to a body of literature that’s already shown improvements in mental health outcomes and safety. This is another important dimension: emotional health.”