Media highlight an alarming increase in hospitalizations at Doernbecher from window fall injuries among young children. Ben Hoffman, M.D., says, “Most people don’t look at windows and think about a threat… Any window that can open more than six inches is what we want to prevent from happening.”

Media cover the ongoing and growing hantavirus outbreak originating from a cruise ship. Bill Messer, M.D., Ph.D., says, “We need to watch and not be dismissive of symptoms or the risk to people sitting close to people on airplanes, things like that, because we really just don’t know.”

Gleevec, the first medication that specifically targets cancer cells, gained FDA approval 25 years ago, turning a lethal leukemia into a manageable illness. The creator of the medication, Brian Druker, M.D., says, “It’s been the honor of my life to fight for my patients and to see Gleevec give hundreds of thousands of people their lives back.”

The Oregonian covers a potential new ban on syringe and needle distribution within 1,000 feet of schools in the Portland area. Honora Englander, M.D., says, “These syringe services programs keep communities safe… The best way to prevent kids from having to step over needles on their way to school is to have more access to these services.”

OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute receives a multimillion dollar grant to advance its ‘organs on a chip’ technology, which could lead to more personalized treatment for cancer patients.

OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute receives a multimillion dollar grant to advance its ‘organs on a chip’ technology, which could lead to more personalized treatment for cancer patients.

Media highlight an alarming increase in hospitalizations at Doernbecher from window fall injuries among young children. Ben Hoffman, M.D., says, “Most people don’t look at windows and think about a threat… Any window that can open more than six inches is what we want to prevent from happening.”

ProPublica spotlights the long-term physical and psychological effects of tear gas on children. Benjamin Sanders, M.D., who treated a Portland child who had been repeatedly exposed to tear gas, says, “At this young age, Angelise was laying down her emotional understanding of the world, which includes some pretty dangerous stuff.”

A study led by Anna Buchner, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues finds bariatric surgery — specifically Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy — decreases risk for colon polyps and colorectal cancer; Buchner says: "The fact that in our study both types of bariatric surgery similarly reduced the occurrence of colorectal cancer, as well as colon polyps, lends additional credence to the general patterns reported in our study.”

OHSU scientists develop a sophisticated blood test that is 97% effective in revealing pancreatic cancer; the study’s senior author Stuart Ibsen, Ph.D., says, "Pancreatic cancer is really hard to detect because the pancreas is so deep inside the body … It’s not like skin cancer you can see or a lump that you can feel. Most of the time, when the tumors do get big enough to start causing problems like jaundice or abdominal pain, it’s very advanced by that point.”