The East Oregonian covers the inaugural statewide firearms injury report from OHSU. Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., says, “Our next step as researchers is to work with this data and the other sources we have and start to hone in on causal factors.”

In a KATU story about how climate change is affecting human health, Leah Werner, M.D., says, “We’re looking at a time where the field of medicine has a professional responsibility to address this and keep our communities healthy.”

Judith Guzman-Cottrill, D.O., and Carl Eriksson, M.D., are quoted in a JAMA News story about RSV spreading fast across the nation. Guzman-Cottrill says, “It’s like when there’s an earthquake and you know the tsunami is coming. That’s how we feel in Portland right now.”

Mandarin cites research from Jane Zhu, M.D., regarding the trend of private equity firms moving into health care.

Students from Astoria High School helped raise money for the breast cancer/mammography fund at Columbia Memorial Hospital — Oregon Health and Science University Knight Cancer Collaborative by completing a medicine ball workout.

OHSU is among 27 health systems nationwide preferred by a 2 to 1 margin over local competitors, according to polling of patients and physicians by WebMD.

Blair Peters, MD, a plastic surgeon at OHSU who specializes in gender-affirming care, led the study, which was presented at the Sexual Medicine Society of North America conference in October. Peters says he hopes that the new information decreases stigma that the clitoris is not worthy of the same medical attention that other organs of the body receive.

In a forecast, Oregon Health & Science University predicted that Covid-19 hospitalizations in Oregon could peak at about 280 by early December, Jeanne said. There are currently 229 people with Covid in Oregon hospitals.

In a story about infants with RSV on KOIN, Dawn Nolt, M.D., M.P.H., says, “If there are any signs of respiratory difficulty, coughing, breathing hard, not being able to eat or not having a good urine output, that’s when we want families to take that sick child to see a provider.”