Research by Martha Goetsch, M.D., and colleagues explores how reduced estrogen levels after menopause affects vaginal elasticity and lubrication, leading many people to experience painful sex. Goetsch notes estrogen loss alters the small, highly sensitive entryway to the vagina, which she describes as “the two square inches that could wreck your life.”

Data compiled by OHSU and PSU researchers indicates Jefferson County has the highest rate of emergency department visits for firearm injuries.

In a story about women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, or PCOS, being able to become pregnant after losing weight with GLP-1 inhibitors like Ozempic, Paula Amato, M.D., notes losing weight can improve the chances that patients with PCOS can conceive. Amato says: “We always recommend lifestyle changes for patients with PCOS. Problem is, it’s certainly very challenging.”

A study led by Emerson Chen, M.D., Ph.D., on cancer drugs approved from January 1992 through July 2019 on the basis of surrogate endpoints.

Oregon federal district courts dismissed some claims brought by former OHSU staff who were denied requests for religious accommodation from COVID-19 vaccination workforce requirements.

OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

OHSU Casey Eye Institute ophthalmologist and researcher David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., receives the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Award for co-inventing the medical imaging technology optical coherence tomography, or OCT, which helps prevent blindness by being widely used to diagnose and manage vision-threatening eye diseases. OCT can see microscopic details in the retina, light-sensing tissue inside the eye, which Huang notes is “not much thicker than a strand of hair, but it has 10 internal layers.”

Siloam Vision, which licensed an OHSU-developed technology to detect the blindness-causing condition retinopathy of prematurity in prematurely born babies, is partnering with the nonprofit Orbis International to improve the condition’s diagnosis and treatment in the developing world.

An online comment by Erik Brodt, M.D., is quoted in a story about discussions between members of Association of Departments of Family Medicine regarding how U.S. family medicine departments responded during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Brodt says: “Unsurprisingly, well-resources communities and health care systems are experiencing better outcomes than under-resources ones during the pandemic. The Indian Health Services operates with funding of approximately $4,000 per capital, while the national average is approximately $10,000 per capita. The burden of COVID-19 on Indian Country will likely be grave.”

An Instagram post by Blair Peters, M.D., calling for physicians to protect their physical health was included in a roundup of medical social media posts.