Maria Rodriguez, M.D., and Alison Edelman, M.D., joined U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum in defending access to the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol. Rodriguez says: “We do not need judges, lawyers and politicians practicing medicine without a license in Texas or anywhere else in our country.”

A story about the Drug Enforcement Administration's new proposal that patients with substance use disorder who receive buprenorphine via telehealth see a professional in person every 30 days quotes Ximena Levander, M.D., as saying: “Where’s the evidence behind this 30-day requirement? There’s no evidence. It feels very arbitrary to say within 30 days come in. It’s really hard for a lot of people.”

Maria Rodriguez, M.D., and Alison Edelman, M.D., joined U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum in defending access to the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol. Rodriguez says: “We do not need judges, lawyers and politicians practicing medicine without a license in Texas or anywhere else in our country.”

Coverage of a proposed Oregon ban on flavored tobacco quotes James Bishara, M.D., who discusses the severe health risks of tobacco and addictive nature of flavored products among children and urges Oregonians to support harm-reduction measures.

Le Monde (France) profiles Charles Blanke, M.D., and his expertise in medically assisted dying in Oregon.

While interviewing obstetrician-gynecologists across the nation in 2021, Julia Tasset, M.D., says OHSU providers told her: “We are protected by our state ... We are prioritized within our institution ... and we are uplifted by our community.” Tasset was among those honored by Multnomah County commissioners when they proclaimed March 10, 2023, Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.

Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., of the Oregon Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms, a new multi-agency collaborative studying gun injury deaths, says many of these deaths involve substance abuse and unintentional access to firearms, adding: “Financial hopelessness and mental health, and the ‘deaths of despair,’ as we started to call them in 2020, are definitely a common factor as well.”

And Kimberly Hutchison, M.D., tells KXL Radio that people are more accident prone during the daylight savings time shift, and recommends people not use electric screens two hours before bedtime to improve sleep and overcome drowsiness after seasonal time changes.

A story about the Drug Enforcement Administration's new proposal that patients with substance use disorder who receive buprenorphine via telehealth see a professional in person every 30 days quotes Ximena Levander, M.D., as saying: “Where’s the evidence behind this 30-day requirement? There’s no evidence. It feels very arbitrary to say within 30 days come in. It’s really hard for a lot of people”

Angela Ozburn, Ph.D., discusses her team's discovery that a pill used to treat a common skin disease is an “incredibly promising” treatment for alcohol use disorder. People who received the medication apremilast reduced their alcohol intake by more than half.