A KGW-TV interview with Microsoft President Brad Smith focuses on the Cascadia Innovation Corridor, a collaboration that aims to use artificial intelligence and connect world-class cancer research centers like the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle and BC Cancer in Vancouver, British Columbia. "It should vastly accelerate our ability to make even more progress in treating and curing cancer, and if we do this well and we take advantage of our connections with each other — Portland, Seattle, Vancouver — we should play a role in leading the world, and I think that that's our future," he says.

Fast Company spotlights the eight next big technologies in health for 2024, including Pangea Biomed, which is using biopsy slide data from OHSU to explore whether its AI-powered tumor intelligence platform can predict tumor responses.

Health IT Answers publishes a perspective by William Hersh, M.D., regarding the evolution of large learning models powered by artificial intelligence. He writes, “This does not mean we should ban LLMs, but that we need to find ways to ensure enough learning so students can think critically based on a core of fundamental human knowledge.”

Medical Dialogues reports on an OHSU retrospective cohort study that revealed urinary tract infections and surgical site infections are the most frequently occurring infections after gender-affirming vaginoplasty with reported incidence rates of 17.5% and 5.5%, respectively.

New research from OHSU and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre finds promising results in a new drug strategy to promote immune response in some resistant forms of pancreatic cancer.

New research from OHSU and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre finds promising results in a new drug strategy to promote immune response in some resistant forms of pancreatic cancer.

Wine Industry Advisor reports the 33rd annual Oregon wine industry auction raised $1.4 million to support ¡Salud!, including a tribute to Leda Garside, R.N., M.B.A., who is retiring this year after serving as the program’s longtime clinical nurse manager. Stephanie Buchanan, manager of development and communications for the Hillsboro Medical Center Foundation, says, “Every dollar raised translates to three dollars’ worth of essential health care services for the dedicated individuals who are the backbone of the wine industry.”

In a story highlighting presentations from the American Association for Cancer Research special conference on advances in pancreatic cancer research, Teresa Zimmers, Ph.D., says individuals presenting to the clinic with unexplained weight loss are around three times more likely to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer than the general population.

As part of its coverage of the challenges women having children later in life experience, Women’s Health highlights OHSU research to advance a technique to repurpose a skin cell into an egg capable of producing embryos for people unable to produce viable eggs on their own. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., cautions, “There is a lot of work to be done perfecting the technology and translating it to human eggs and embryos.”

In a STAT News story referencing access to emergency contraception in the wake of the presidential election, Alison Edelman, M.D., says, “I’m feeling uneasy. Contraception is incredibly important, including emergency contraception. Reproductive health has had a long history of being either ignored or under attack, so we’re very used to being in that state. We just have to continue to take one day at a time and hope that people recognize their rights and their need to access care.”