The Tillamook Headlight Herald interviews Flavio Rocha, M.D., about World Cancer Day, Feb. 4. He says, “It is difficult to say how long it will be with us, but what is encouraging is that we have made significant progress as we learn more about the genetics, through profiling, as our drug discovery has improved, as our surgical techniques have improved and as our radiation technology has improved.”

Medscape covers public awareness campaign critical of OHSU’s use of live pigs in surgical training.

OHSU School of Nursing Klamath Falls Campus hosts a poverty simulation for OHSU and other health profession students. Lauri Gimpel, RN, M.S.N., says the simulation explores the day-to-day realities of living in poverty and can help OHSU nursing students better serve their future patients.

Nandita Gupta, M.D., is quoted in a KOIN story highlighting National Wear Red Day, Feb. 3, to raise awareness about heart disease.

In a letter published by Current Psychiatry, Aryan Sarparast, M.D., clarifies a common misconception about Oregon legalizing the use of psilocybin. He writes, “The intention of the Oregon Psilocybin Services rollout was that these services would not be of the medical model.”

In a post on Blackbox Healthcare Solutions, Liz Stevenson, J.D., M.P.H., writes about Oregon’s fragmented behavioral health system and how it fails to connect people with the care they need before they fall into crisis. She writes, “Through the Oregon Behavioral Health Coordination Center, we want to show the caregivers a simplified roadmap on how to connect patients to the help they need."

KTVL (Medford) covers efforts underway to reduce gaps in Oregon’s addiction treatment system and decrease the number of overdose deaths. Todd Korthuis, M.D., says, “The fentanyl overdose epidemic is one of the most substantial public health challenges we’ve encountered, and it’s going to require every tool in the toolbox.”

OHSU medical student Maisie Bailey cites a growing body of research linking gas appliances to health impacts in an op-ed published by Eugene Weekly.

HealthDay News covers a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine led by Darren Malinoski, M.D., that finds therapeutic hypothermia is inferior to machine perfusion of the kidneys for reducing delayed graft function after transplantation.

The Lund Report covers state rule change pertaining to public notice for crisis standards of care, including at OHSU.