OHSU Professor Emeritus Joe Gray, Ph.D., gives a talk on the need for better public understanding of radioactivity and its biological effects.

In a story highlighting biofabrication, which could be used to build transplantable human organs in the future, Haylie Helms, M.S., discusses how she 3D prints individual cells: “Kind of like how an inkjet printer works –- you have all of your different colors. I can just put different cell types in each of the channels.”

OHSU’s COVID-19 therapy clinic on Portland’s South Waterfront is the only clinic statewide to offer patients the antiviral medication remdesivir. YoungYoon Ham, Pharm.D. says: “Receiving treatment within days of becoming sick is especially important for those who have a higher risk of getting severely sick.”

The HOWTO Grant Program, a partnership between OHA and OHSU that supports community-based and innovative training initiatives to address health care workforce needs in rural and medically underserved areas of the state, is highlighted in a The World (Coos Bay) article on training traditional health workers.

Elle Tilden, Ph.D., CNM, is quoted in a press release from Stork Club announcing the launch of a maternity program, supported by a clinical study showing significant reduction in preterm births and unnecessary C-sections; Tilden, who is clinical director of maternity care at Stork Club, says: "There is strong evidence to suggest that doula care is a cost-effective approach to significantly improving maternal/child outcomes, and our study of the Stork Club Birth Doula program aligns with this overall body of research. Given our current maternal health and maternal health equity crisis, we need to advance impactful and evidence-based health care systems solutions within commercial insurance."

In a Cancer Today story featuring a new study on adding stereotactic body radiation therapy to standard care, Nima Nabavizadeh, M.D., says: “What is unique about the study is that it enrolled a population of patients with very advanced cancers. In addition, some patients had metastatic disease. So, [the findings speak] to a broad, locally advanced population that unfortunately doesn’t have a lot of therapeutic options available to them.”

House Bill 2002 would expand insurance coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care. Christina Milano, M.D., medical director of the OHSU Transgender Health Program, says that ensuring transgender Oregonians are able to access health care in a safe environment can impact their overall health.

The Lund Report published a story citing testimony from Beech Burns, M.D., describing how the lack of services in rural communities impacts families with children struggling with thoughts of self-harm: If doctors decide the child doesn’t need to be hospitalized “they are discharged the same day back to their community, with the family left to determine how to arrange transportation home and how they will pay for the ambulance fee and cost of the emergency department visit.

Becker's Hospital Review reports on the governor's $80 million budget for behavioral health, including $1.5 million to OHSU to coordinate the availability of behavioral health residential beds statewide.

A study published in JAMA Network Open and co-led by M.D./Ph.D. student Sarina Chaiken finds that from 2011 to 2018, neonatal Down syndrome diagnoses increased more in states that banned abortion at 20 weeks’ gestation compared with states without such bans.