A new study from OHSU finds that the number of health care professionals able to write a prescription for buprenorphine, a key medication to treat addiction, quadrupled at community health clinics from 2016 to 2021. Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., says, “There’s still a lot of work to be done. But it’s a step in the right direction when more providers have the capacity to write prescriptions to treat patients who want to be treated.”

KDRV-TV in Medford covers an international nursing student exchange between students from Guanajuato, Mexico, and the School of Nursing Ashland campus. The University of Guanajuato students will spend three weeks in Ashland, and the OHSU nursing students will visit Mexico. Alfredo Lara, University of Guanajuato faculty member, says, “I think this is a wonderful experience for the students ... . They have this opportunity to see how people work here,” and how OHSU teaches nursing.

Across the Pacific Northwest, Native nations and Native-led organizations are working to combat the opioid crisis, offering addiction treatment programs to support their citizens, other Indigenous people and the broader community. The Grande Ronde tribe's Great Circle Recovery mobile medication unit is one example. Todd Korthuis, M.D., says, “In general, most addiction treatment in the U.S. and in Indian Country is hard to come by and high barrier. What an innovative and exciting model [Great Circle Recovery] is that is reaching people who would otherwise not be served. Both tribal members and others in the community.”

A new study from OHSU finds that the number of health care professionals able to write a prescription for buprenorphine, a key medication to treat addiction, quadrupled at community health clinics from 2016 to 2021. Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., says, “There’s still a lot of work to be done. But it’s a step in the right direction when more providers have the capacity to write prescriptions to treat patients who want to be treated.”

A 2020 study led by OHSU on the benefits of patients stopping tobacco use during treatment.

a study that finds some differences in physical performance between transgender and cisgender athletes, using a quote from Joanna Harper, Ph.D., who says, “The idea that trans women are going to take over women’s sports is ludicrous,” and adds that blanket bans of transgender athletes are “unnecessary and unjustified.”

A study finds some differences in physical performance between transgender and cisgender athletes, using a quote from Joanna Harper, Ph.D., who says, “The idea that trans women are going to take over women’s sports is ludicrous,” and adds that blanket bans of transgender athletes are “unnecessary and unjustified.”

A new study from OHSU finds that the number of health care professionals able to write a prescription for buprenorphine, a key medication to treat addiction, quadrupled at community health clinics from 2016 to 2021. Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., says, “There’s still a lot of work to be done. But it’s a step in the right direction when more providers have the capacity to write prescriptions to treat patients who want to be treated.”

The Portland Business Journal reports that Oregon has enjoyed an uptick in research grants and funding from the NIH, with OHSU remaining the top recipient.

A new study led by ZhenZhen Zhang, Ph.D., suggests women with breast cancer and germline BRCA pathogenic variants had increased all-cause mortality risk if their breast cancer diagnosis occurred within 10 years of giving birth. “Given that proximity to recent childbirth is such a strong factor associated with breast cancer metastasis and survival in the general population, the question of whether women with hereditary pathogenic variants in breast cancer predisposing genes have similarly poorer prognosis merits investigation,” Zhang says.