The Shamrock Run Portland will support OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital for the 26th consecutive year. The St. Patrick's Day race has raised more than $815,000 for the children's hospital to date. “Portland’s Shamrock Run has been a steadfast supporter of OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital for over two decades, enabling us to pursue innovative projects and initiatives that positively impact the lives of our patients and their families,” says Cindy McEvoy, M.D.

OHSU and Adventist Health Portland are opening a new federally qualified health center in Southeast Portland to treat all local residents, regardless of their ability to pay, insurance status, income, background and preferred language.

OHSU and OSU researchers develop a new type of material, thiopene-based nanolipids, designed to deliver mRNA for gene therapy to treat blindness and pulmonary disease.

David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., will discuss the development and impact of the biomedical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, which he co-invented, at OHSU's Mark O. Hatfield Lecture on April 9.

OHSU’s 30-30-30 initiative, which aims to grow and diversify Oregon’s health care workforce as well as OHSU’s health profession student body, is enabling two Umpqua Community College nursing faculty members to remotely earn master’s degrees in nursing from the OHSU School of Nursing while remaining in their Southern Oregon communities. One recipient says: "Community change and making a real impact to the health care available to our rural community is what I love. I think it’s important to bring knowledge back to where we live and make the experience for our students better.”

The OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s Community Outreach Program is providing free eye exams in a new, 39-foot-long mobile eye clinic that was made possible by $3.25 million in donations. Brittany Melvin-Broulette says the program enables the early diagnosis and treatment of vision-threatening conditions in underserved Oregonians.

A 37-year-old breast cancer survivor shares her medical journey, which began with a mammogram provided by OHSU Health's mobile mammography van.

OHSU and Lutheran Community Services NW host the Refugee and Immigrant Resource Fair to provide resources and celebrate the many cultures of Oregon’s immigrants and refugees.

Tom Beer, M.D., says multicancer tests are being designed to have high levels of specificity: "When you think about the false-positive rates for current, accepted single-cancer screening tests, they tend to be around 10 - 11%. Here, we're looking at 1% or so."

In a Medscape article on managing grief in the field of oncology, Charles Blanke, M.D., says: "If you're paralyzed by grief, you can't do this for a living."