Two years since the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections, patients seeking abortions in Oregon have increased by an estimated 40%. Alyssa Colwill, M.D., says, "For individuals undergoing obstetrical care in Idaho, we are the nearest state that can provide emergency services. Prior to the Dobbs decision, it was rare that anybody from Idaho was transferred to Oregon."

In a story about various options for personal lubrication, Sara Cichowski, M.D., says, “Some lubricants have FDA clearance, but many great products — including natural options, such as olive oil, coconut oil, and apricot kernel oil — don’t. I tell my patients that picking a lubricant is about personal preference, often based on skin sensitivity, texture/glide preferences and planned activity.”

HealthCentral reports that taking CBD for multiple sclerosis may ease symptoms such as pain and spasticity, but there’s still a lot that scientists don’t know about the substance. Michelle Cameron, M.D., says, “Many people would prefer to use CBD alone, for legal reasons or because they don’t want to be intoxicated, but we don’t have data to know how CBD alone works.”

In an article about a study that found patients often waited days or weeks for insurers to respond to prior authorization requests before largely receiving approval for eye injections for retinal disease, Zachary Kroeger, M.D., says the study shows that “increased administrative costs due to prior authorizations are directly increasing health care costs, not reducing them.”

In a story about the Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue’s decision to stop having its ambulances provide inter-hospital transfers, Robert Duehmig says, “I think it’s something hospitals and EMS services are going to have to continue to look at and figure out what that solution’s going to be."

Two years since the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections, patients seeking abortions in Oregon have increased by an estimated 40%. Alyssa Colwill, M.D., says, "For individuals undergoing obstetrical care in Idaho, we are the nearest state that can provide emergency services. Prior to the Dobbs decision, it was rare that anybody from Idaho was transferred to Oregon."

KGW-TV profiles one of Eric Roeland, M.D.’s, patients in the “symptom science” program that aims to treat difficult side effects often associated with cancer treatment. Roeland says, “This type of management focuses on patients as people and not just tumors, and trying to balance

Three residents are beginning their family medicine training with Central Oregon’s first-ever graduate medical education program, the joint OHSU-St. Charles Three Sisters Rural Track Program, which brings residents to OHSU for its first year and St. Charles Madras for its final two years. One of the residents is Callie Krewson, D.O., who was born and raised in Bend and says, “I want to give back to the community that raised me.”

OHSU partners with Duke University and University of Colorado (Aurora) on a study that found twice-daily use of a mindfulness mobile phone application helped reduce depression in discharged patients who had received intensive care while they were hospitalized.

Mark Pennesi, M.D., Ph.D., discusses how an experimental, CRISPR-based gene editing treatment improved vision for many clinical trial participants with an inherited form of blindness at the Retina International World Congress.