Jordan Anderson, D.O., says depression, anxiety, panic attacks and PTSD are common among long COVID-19 patients, who can have a myriad of mental as well as physical health issues

In a Popular Science article about how allergy drops can be an at-home alternative to allergy shots, Shyam Joshi, M.D., says at-home tests and procedures can reach a far broader pool of patients because it can be difficult to get an in-person appointment with an allergist: “We are booked out through the end of the year.”

Oregon Health & Science University and Legacy Health on Wednesday night announced that they intend to combine and form a 10-hospital system with more than 32,000 employees. But the proposal is already raising questions and concerns.

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Legacy Health have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to combine. The move aims to establish a comprehensive healthcare system that will provide high-quality essential healthcare services to patients across Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.

Legacy Health will become part of OHSU in a major shift at two of the region's largest health care systems.

Oregon Health & Science University and Legacy Health will soon merge into one healthcare system, according to an announcement from OHSU on Wednesday.

Continued coverage of research led by Kathy Grant, Ph.D., that finds a form of gene therapy currently used to treat Parkinson’s disease may dramatically reduce alcohol use among chronic heavy drinkers.

A study published in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health finds that a menstrual disc holds up to twice as much period blood as a tampon or a pad. Lead author Bethany Samuelson Bannow, M.D., says of the study, “We have noticed that a lot of folks — particularly those with heavy periods — are moving toward cups and discs, and we realized we don’t really have a good metric to diagnose heavy bleeding utilizing those methods, as all the currently available methods are dependent on pads and tampons.”

The OHSU School of Medicine welcomed its 150 newest M.D. students Aug. 11 at the annual White Coat Ceremony, of which David Jacoby, M.D., says: “This watershed moment signifies the honor and the responsibility inherent in becoming our next generation of physicians, at a time when access to health care and the advancement of medicine and science has been proven paramount to our ability to thrive as a society.”

A first-known study led by Bethany Samuelson Bannow, M.D., finds many menstrual products had a much lower or higher liquid capacity than advertised when real blood was used instead of a saline solution more commonly employed in the product development process. The results suggest that doctors may be underdiagnosing heavy menstrual bleeding, which can be a sign of certain medical conditions.