KPTV reports on OHA data that show injuries form e-bike and e-scooter crashes more than doubled from 2021 to 2025. Obert Xu, M.D., says: “Overall, the trend is we are seeing more injuries across all emergency department visits. In 2021 we had about 50 presentations to the emergency department. That number has increased three-fold to 180 in 2025.”

The Portland Business Journal publishes a brief on the appointment of Graciela Gomez Cowger as chief transformation officer for the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

OPB’s Think Out Loud interviews Justin Regner, M.D., about OHSU’s field surgical team, which recently responded to a climber trapped under a boulder on Mount Hood over Memorial Day weekend.

In an article on the 25th anniversary of imatinib, or Gleevec, Brian Druker, M.D., tells Cancer Therapy Advisor: “I’ve said for 20 to 25 years that there were two elements to the success of the imatinib trials. Number one was matching the right patient with the right treatment. Number two was treating early in the course of disease, when CML is still a relatively homogeneous, single oncogene‑driven cancer.”

The Oregonian reports that as many as 600,000 Oregonians could be negatively impacted by new Medicaid rules. Daniel Nelson, M.D., says he is seeing a lot of confusion among his patients: “Medicaid’s structure is confusing even for people who are experts. It becomes extraordinarily challenging for people to understand exactly what coverage they’ve got.”

Continued coverage of the popular Wildwood crow sculptures placed around the Portland-metro area. After the trail ends, the crows will be auctioned, with proceeds benefiting Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

A Slate article about how some primary care physicians are charging membership fees to their patients, which physicians say decreases burnout and increases patient care quality, cites a study by Jane Zhu, M.D., that found the number of direct primary care and concierge practices increased 78.4% between 2018 and 2023.

OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital partners with the Portland Police Bureau to create a video on how to properly secure children while they are riding in vehicles, as part of Child Passenger Safety Week, Sept. 20 – 26. Video shared in a number of community newspapers owned by the Carpenter Media Group.

MedPageToday reports on a statement released by the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions that calls for an end to procedural volume reporting requirements for certification maintenance. Joaquin Cigarroa, M.D., says: “ … our community of interventional cardiology is overwhelmingly questioning the value of reporting volume and using this as a surrogate for quality in our ongoing maintenance of certification, and believe it is no longer relevant."

A first-of-its-kind global study led by OHSU revealed that the causes of traumatic brain injury worldwide vary greatly from country to country across the human development index. Ahmed Raslan, M.D., says, “You can’t solve a global brain injury crisis in operating rooms alone. This study shows the importance of fixing the systems that surround us."