Continued media coverage of the OHSU-Legacy Health integration announcement.

Continued media coverage of the OHSU-Legacy Health integration announcement.

Margaret Overstreet, O.D., explains why it’s important for children to have annual eye exams or vision checks: “By having your child’s eye checked before they go into school, you’re potentially catching vision problems that could impede their learning and success in school.”

OHSU is using perfusion devices, also known as a “liver in a box,” for liver transplantation; the technology is expected to increase the university’s annual liver transplant totals by 20%.

In a KPTV story about OHSU providing training and information about how to use naloxone as part of International Overdose Awareness Day, Susannah Lujan-Bear, R.N., says: “Make talking about using drugs something that people can do comfortably without shaming people. Because people who are shamed and stigmatized are much more likely to use alone, and people who use alone don’t have someone there to respond in an emergency.”

A Politico story about fentanyl’s devastating effects on American youth cites a study from OHSU that found only a quarter of facilities providing adolescent treatment for substance use offer medication treatment.

Leading-edge medical technology at OHSU is reshaping the landscape of liver transplantation. Since April, OHSU has successfully performed liver transplants on seven patients using the “Liver in a Box” machine.

Hospice News references comments by Sarah Espe Lewis, RN, regarding ways to improve palliative care referrals in oncology. She says nurses at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute used a palliative care assessment tool to reduce the cancellation rate of palliative care meetings: “The role of the new nurse navigators was to connect with newly referred patients before their first appointment and educate them on the wide variety of services we can provide them through palliative care.”

A New York Post article covers an OHSU study that found a form of gene therapy currently used experimentally to treat Parkinson’s disease may dramatically reduce alcohol use among chronic heavy drinkers.

Dawn Nolt M.D., shares common illnesses seen when kids head back to school and key prevention measures for families, emphasizing the importance of vaccinations. She says, “It’s always important to stay up-to-date on vaccines because that will ward off a lot of respiratory illnesses. We also hope that families will teach their kids how to properly wash their hands and also how to cover their coughs, colds and sneezes.”