Longtime Wieden + Kennedy executive Jim Riswold died from complications from cancer. Riswold was diagnosed with leukemia in 2000 and treated by Brian Druker, M.D., at OHSU. In 2011, Druker and Riswold gave a TED Talk together, and remained friends. Druker says, “What was remarkable about Jim is that if you do a search on him, you realize he created all of the iconic Nike advertisements and he hung out with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley and Tiger Woods, and he’d never sit around and say, ‘I was hanging out with Michael Jordan.’ He was just a regular guy with a great sense of humor.”

In response to a national study highlighting racial disparities in opioid overdoses and the lack of treatment access, Dan Hartung, Pharm.D., says, "While there have been notable policy changes over the past decade that have improved access to meds used for opioid use disorder and made headway against racial disparities, those efforts haven’t taken into consideration the issue of whether patients can actually get their prescription filled."

Gopal Allada, M.D., says patients with preexisting lung conditions are more likely to be symptomatic and have flareups of underlying diseases when exposed to wildfire smoke: “We can see in the health data that more people are coming into emergency departments with, for example, respiratory illnesses when there’s more smoke in the air."

A STAT News article highlights new research lending insight into sudden cardia arrest, which kills more than 400,000 Americans every year. Eric Stecker, M.D., says less-immediate warning signs could be longstanding issues such as heart failure and diabetes. “Because the person had a heart attack two years ago, or they have a cardiomyopathy where their heart is weak, those can predispose to primary arrhythmias that can lead to death without a heart attack.”

In a The New York Times profile on the use of artificial intelligence implants to produce sounds that came close to matching the true voice of a patient with ALS, Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D., says financial incentives make it likelier that people with disabilities will become poor, putting access to cutting-edge implants even further out of their reach.

Longtime Wieden + Kennedy executive Jim Riswold died from complications from cancer. Riswold was diagnosed with leukemia in 2000 and treated by Brian Druker, M.D., at OHSU. In 2011, Druker and Riswold gave a TED Talk together, and remained friends. Druker says, “What was remarkable about Jim is that if you do a search on him, you realize he created all of the iconic Nike advertisements and he hung out with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley and Tiger Woods, and he’d never sit around and say, ‘I was hanging out with Michael Jordan.’ He was just a regular guy with a great sense of humor.”

Longtime Wieden + Kennedy executive Jim Riswold died from complications from cancer. Riswold was diagnosed with leukemia in 2000 and treated by Brian Druker, M.D., at OHSU. In 2011, Druker and Riswold gave a TED Talk together, and remained friends. Druker says, “What was remarkable about Jim is that if you do a search on him, you realize he created all of the iconic Nike advertisements and he hung out with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley and Tiger Woods, and he’d never sit around and say, ‘I was hanging out with Michael Jordan.’ He was just a regular guy with a great sense of humor.”

KOIN-TV highlights a groundbreaking technique being used at OHSU for osteoarthritis of the knee, a degenerative joint disease.

Continued coverage on an OHSU study that discovered potential impacts of poor air quality for patients undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment, or IVF. Molly Kornfield, M.D., says, "'Our hope is that this research informs preparedness measures that can ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients when we do face these serious air quality crises."

When considering when to get a booster, Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., suggests that people who are at high risk should talk with their doctors about the ideal interval between vaccines.