OHSU shares a statement on the nationwide shortage of nurses and thanks health care workers for their continued hard work.

Joint OHSU-OSU research has developed a nanoparticle-based method that seeks to improve the diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancies, a life-threatening pregnancy complication that kills about 70 Americans annually. Leslie Myatt, Ph.D. says: “Too many people become seriously ill and even die because the best-available methods to detect and treat ectopic pregnancies simply aren’t good enough."

Joanne Noone, Ph.D., RN, and Susan Bakewell-Sachs, Ph.D., RN, describe how the OHSU School of Nursing’s new Oregon Nurse Education Academy will prepare experienced nurses to become clinical faculty and preceptors who support the education of new nurses and nursing students.

OHSU shares a statement on the nationwide shortage of nurses and thanks health care workers for their continued hard work.

In a joint press conference with Multnomah County and Legacy Hospital, Carl Eriksson, M.D., shares the latest on the RSV crisis and urges community members to take precautions to avoid getting sick.

Local news outlets continue to report on the unprecedented demand for emergency care following Thanksgiving.

In a story about so-called “super-dodgers,” or people who either haven’t had COVID-19 or who didn't experience symptoms when they did, William Messer, M.D., Ph.D., says: “Some people are not getting sick because they got a great immune response to the vaccine, and others are not getting sick because they got lucky.”

In a Portland Business Journal article, Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., discusses a new brain surgery simulator that allows doctors in training to practice in a realistic situation without risking the life of a patient.

Research led by Blair Peters, M.D., found the human clitoris has more than 10,000 nerve fibers. Noting transmasculine patient volunteers who underwent gender-affirming phalloplasty surgery donated the clitoral tissue that made this study possible, Peters says: “As soon as we start limiting or oppressing care for one group, it really does have implications for everybody else. Everyone deserves equal access to care."

In a story about researchers and national obstetric groups advocating for stillbirth evaluations, Karen Gibbins, M.D., describes how an autopsy of her stillborn son revealed he had a rare disease. She later gave birth to a healthy child, after her provider was prompted by the earlier autopsy results to prescribe an antibody treatment during that pregnancy. Gibbins now plans to develop a tool to help providers walk their patients through the autopsy process.