In a HealthDay article on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force saying there is insufficient evidence on screening and supplementation for iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy, a systematic review led by Amy Cantor, M.D., is mentioned.

Robert Cloutier, M.D., offers advice to University of Oregon undergrad students who plan to apply to medical schools and describes the OHSU School of Medicine admissions process. Cloutier says he enjoys helping medical students grow and advance: “For some people, it’s a long road to get to medical school and I’ve had people who still text me today, thanking me for letting them into medical school, especially students who come from underprivileged backgrounds, and for whom they’re first-generation college, these are big, big moments for them.”

A BioSpace article on the importance of patient advocacy in drug development for rare diseases features the work by Shivaani Kummar, M.D., and the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation to organize and recruit patients for a Phase II clinical trial of a now FDA-approved drug while Kummar was at the National Cancer Institute. Kummar worked with the foundation to recruit enough patients with the rare disease.

The first patient has been enrolled in a Phase II clinical trial evaluating a reduced dose of a post-transplant immunosuppressive chemotherapy treatment after stem cell transplantation for patients with certain blood cancers. The trial is starting at OHSU and principal investigator Rachel Cook, M.D., says: "I am thrilled about the initiation of the OPTIMIZE clinical trial, which represents a significant advance in blood cancer treatment by exploring the potential of reduced dose PTCy to mitigate adverse effects and ensure broader treatment inclusivity. This trial is a step towards significantly improving patient outcomes by aiming for more personalized and less toxic treatment protocols.”

Many athletes say they drink tart cherry juice to help with inflammation and muscle pain, and a new study by Kerry Kuehl, M.D., finds a small effect in reducing muscle soreness, a moderate effect in aiding muscle strength recovery, and a small reduction in some blood markers for muscle damage or inflammation. “The equivalency of the pain reduction was … about 800 milligrams of ibuprofen,” Kuehl says.

In continued coverage of the OHSU discovery that switching arms for administration of a multi-dose vaccine could improve the effects fourfold, lead author Marcel Curlin, M.D., says, "By switching from one arm to the other, you essentially have memory training in two places instead of one."

For the 15th anniversary of “Coraline,” the first animated feature from Hillsboro’s Laika studio, 30 nearly 6-foot-tall cat sculptures are going to be installed for a “Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail” art exhibition. The sculptures will be auctioned off to raise money for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

A MedPage Today article about an AI chatbot outperforming a panel of ophthalmologists when given prompts about glaucoma and retinal health cites an accompanying commentary by Benjamin Young, M.D., that says "medical errors will potentially be caught in this way," and that "at this time, LLMs should be considered a potentially fast and useful tool to enhance the knowledge of a clinician who has examined a patient and synthesized their active clinical situation."

Many athletes say they drink tart cherry juice to help with inflammation and muscle pain, and a new study by Kerry Kuehl, M.D., finds a small effect in reducing muscle soreness, a moderate effect in aiding muscle strength recovery, and a small reduction in some blood markers for muscle damage or inflammation. “The equivalency of the pain reduction was … about 800 milligrams of ibuprofen,” Kuehl says.

OHSU research that found U.S. collegiate athletes who are male, Black and basketball players are more likely to have a sudden cardiac arrest is mentioned in a story about a Minneapolis family’s efforts to raise awareness about the condition after their son died of it.