Voice Male highlights a new book, The Masculinity Workbook for Teens: Cracking the Guy Code to be Your Authentic Self, by Christopher Reigeluth, Ph.D.

Willamette Week reports that Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt will partner with OHSU’s Gun Violence Prevention Research Center to form a commission to review recent gun violence and what could have been done to stop it.

Asked about informational picketing by nurses, OHSU provides a statement: “OHSU deeply values its nursing staff, and appreciates the time and effort that have gone into this bargaining cycle. We are dedicated to bargaining toward our shared goals of a safe, healthy and respectful working environment. As the process proceeds, the OHSU bargaining team looks forward to continuing thoughtful, productive negotiations.”

The Portland Business Journal reports on OHSU’s decision to raise pay for research staff members.

Despite a national opioid overdose epidemic supercharged by a surge of illicit fentanyl, OHSU-led research reveals wide discrepancies among U.S. states in effectively treating opioid use disorder among people covered by Medicaid.

In a video interview with OncLive, Jen-Jane Liu, M.D., discusses how prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET imaging may help inform lymph node dissection in the localized disease setting for patients with prostate cancer.

An OPB News story notes that Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., and his lab have been awarded $1 million to build the Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub in Portland. “The funds will help the lab expand its work using 3D printers, with the aim of doing everything from healing major bone injuries, personalizing cancer treatments and even building full-sized functional organs for transplant.”

Asked about informational picketing by nurses, OHSU provides a statement: “OHSU deeply values its nursing staff, and appreciates the time and effort that have gone into this bargaining cycle. We are dedicated to bargaining toward our shared goals of a safe, healthy and respectful working environment. As the process proceeds, the OHSU bargaining team looks forward to continuing thoughtful, productive negotiations."

Asked about informational picketing by nurses, OHSU provides a statement: “OHSU deeply values its nursing staff, and appreciates the time and effort that have gone into this bargaining cycle. We are dedicated to bargaining toward our shared goals of a safe, healthy and respectful working environment. As the process proceeds, the OHSU bargaining team looks forward to continuing thoughtful, productive negotiations.”

NPR-Radio covers a new study suggesting opioids have little, if any, sustained benefit for treating back and neck pain. Richard Deyo, M.D., says the new study underscores a significant blind spot in the evidence around the prescribing of opioids for acute back pain, saying, “It’s a well-designed trial. It’s going to ruffle feathers, and I think there’ll be a lot of controversy.”