MDEdge covers a survey led by Genevieve Benedetti, M.D., that finds the impact of pregnancy is unpredictable for women diagnosed with rosacea.

Avital O’Glasser, M.D., talks about the challenges facing nontraditional scholarship and amplifying diverse voices in medicine in an Oncology Overdrive podcast on HemOnc Today.

Oncology Nursing News covers OHSU research suggesting that creative arts therapy can help improve the quality of life in pediatric patients with cancer. Jennifer Raybin, Ph.D., RN, says, “Nurses are doing it all the time anyway. If you walk on a unit, you’ll see that [nurses] have artwork up on their whiteboards and have music playing. If a patient is having a hard day, [an art intervention] doesn’t have to be fancy; play some music or get some easy art supplies, if that’s what the patient likes doing.”

In a Healio Rheumatology story about the utility of routine or annual COVID-19 vaccinations for an evolving virus, Kevin Winthrop, M.D., says, “These things are going to come and go. We need to see how long-term studies play out and how variants evolve.”

Cold temperatures raise the risk of health impacts, especially hypothermia, among unsheltered people. In a KATU-TV story, Shana Kusin, M.D., says, “As people get colder, they might get sleepier and then may settle in and not realize how cold they’re really getting.”

KPTV-TV covers new national effort led by OHSU to determine the role that respectful maternity care plays in improving health outcomes. Amy Cantor, M.D., says, “Rates of maternal death and maternal illness in this country are some of the worst of any comparable country.”

Despite an alarming increase in overdose deaths among young people nationwide, a new “secret shopper”-style study finds that access to residential addiction treatment centers for adolescents in the United States is limited and costly. Ryan Cook, Ph.D., says, “When your kid is in a crisis and needs treatment, it can be terrifying to know where to turn. Many parents or family members will look first for residential care and find the experience profoundly disheartening. Systems-level changes are needed to ensure effective, affordable treatment options for adolescents.”

Maureen Baldwin, M.D., discusses IUDs with AirTalk, a program on Los Angeles' NPR station, and answers listener questions. She says, "The IUD can be really helpful for the transition between perimenopause in your 40s to early menopause in your early 50s because it can help reduce heavy menstrual bleeding that's common during that time period."

Despite an alarming increase in overdose deaths among young people nationwide, a new “secret shopper”-style study finds that access to residential addiction treatment centers for adolescents in the United States is limited and costly. Ryan Cook, Ph.D., says, “When your kid is in a crisis and needs treatment, it can be terrifying to know where to turn. Many parents or family members will look first for residential care and find the experience profoundly disheartening. Systems-level changes are needed to ensure effective, affordable treatment options for adolescents.”

Salon covers the renewed trend of ingesting colloidal silver as a cure-all for ailments, which Rob Hendrickson, M.D., warns can be dangerous or even fatal: “If you take a very large amount or injected IV, those types of things, then that can cause organ failure and you can get very, very sick.”