Reality Break Games and a Tualatin dad are collecting Pokémon cards and games for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital to show thanks for the hospital staff who cared for the father’s son last year.

Dr. Leslie Myatt, OHSU professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of perinatal research, said up to 100,000 pregnancies per year in the United State are estimated to be ectopic pregnancies.

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. I hope research like this will create better options for those who unfortunately experience an ectopic pregnancy.”

The BBC short film “Hikikomori: Why do we run?” about the condition of extreme social withdrawal includes expert insight by Alan Teo, M.D. Teo is also a co-author of a questionnaire to detect the condition that is highlighted in a Kyushu University press release.

Research led by Blair Peters, M.D., finds 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: “If we start limiting care for one group, everyone else indirectly suffers too.”

Jamie Lo, M.D., provides outside expert commentary on a study that indicated pregnant women who use marijuana are more likely to have babies with birth defects and have lower weight. Lo notes the study didn’t track how participants ingested cannabis, and smoking is associated with higher-risk pregnancies.

Despite a recent increase in statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations, Peter Graven, Ph.D., says his pandemic forecast doesn’t predict Oregon will have a large case surge.

Eliza Hayes Bakken, M.D., says parents should look for the following symptoms before taking their children with RSV to the emergency room: the inside of the infant’s mouth is blue; sick infants try to use their stomach, rib or neck muscles to breathe; sick infants aren’t taking in or holding down fluids.

The Child Life Therapy Program at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital helps young patients cope with being in the hospital by lending them video game systems recently donated by the nonprofit Games for Love.

The Child Life Therapy Program at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital helps young patients cope with being in the hospital by lending them video game systems recently donated by the nonprofit Games for Love.