A study led by Dan Hoover, M.D., finds nearly half of people who use illicit drugs in rural areas have been recently incarcerated: “You have a reachable time in jails, and most jails are not providing this kind of addiction care. In a broader sense, our correctional institutions have a mandate to rehabilitate people who have entered the system — and treating addiction is a huge part of that”:

The proposed OHSU-Legacy integration is mentioned in this article about clinicians with 10 women’s health clinics in the Legacy Medical Group who announced their intent to unionize with the Oregon Nurses Association.

OHSU is the first health center in the nation to use a leading-edge knee repair technique to treat osteoarthritis in the knee. Dennis Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., says: “We’ve been looking at this technology for more than a decade. Over that time, I would meet people who had really end of their rope. You know, they couldn't do stuff. They were failing to stay healthy. They were failing to keep up with their work, their children. This is a disease that we don't want to necessarily wait to take care of until the end. You know, most things we like to take care of when we first notice them."

A study led by Dan Hoover, M.D., finds nearly half of people who use illicit drugs in rural areas have been recently incarcerated: “You have a reachable time in jails, and most jails are not providing this kind of addiction care. In a broader sense, our correctional institutions have a mandate to rehabilitate people who have entered the system — and treating addiction is a huge part of that.”

OHSU Health and Aetna agree to a new multi-year agreement that will keep OHSU Health as an in-network provider for Aetna members.

In a KATU-TV story on OHSU’s efforts to improve lung cancer screening, Peter Lee, M.D., says: “Early detection is key. We have fantastic advances in chemotherapy and robotic surgeries and radiation, but we haven't been able to tip the scale toward improved five-year survival in the general population and among all the therapies of lung cancer. The biggest benefit in mortality has been lung cancer screening and early detection."

David Lieberman, M.D., presents study results at the 2023 American College of Gastroenterology meeting on stool-based testing for colon cancer.

Jason Hedges, M.D., discusses the rise in vasectomies in the Northwest, following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe V. Wade.

Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, a Knight Cancer Network member, hosts free lung cancer screening for qualified patients. Bay Area Hospital administrator Jared Carter says: "Since 2018, we've found 34 patients total that have a positive cancer finding because of the low dose screening. Forty-eight percent of those were low stage, so we caught them early enough where they could have treatment."

Scientists produce the first live-born chimeric primate to have a high proportion of cells originating from donor stem cells, which opens the door to using chimeric monkeys, which are more biologically similar to humans than chimeric rats and mice, for studying human diseases and developing treatments. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., says the method used by the scientists might be used to grow human organs in pig or nonhuman primate tissues: “If we can delete the genes encoding for, say, the kidney, in a large animal such as a pig or primate, we could introduce human cells to produce that organ instead,” adding that using human–animal chimeras for organ collection, especially if human embryonic stem cells contribute to the nervous system, brain or reproductive cells, comes with many ethical concerns.