OHSU’s Oct. 14 COVID-19 forecast predicts Oregon will have another case surge that could peak in mid-December.

A KGW-TV story profiles a new program called Health Emergency Ready Oregon, or HERO, designed to ensure kids get the proper care in an emergency. Ben Hoffman, M.D., says: "HERO kids is an innovative program. In fact, it’s the first in the country. We have a lot of kids that we take care of who have a lot of complex medical issues, where having a heads-up beforehand can help them prepare."

A study by Willi Horner-Johnson, Ph.D., finds 19.5% of people who give birth had at least one disability. Horner-Johnson says: “Women with disabilities have described clinicians treating them as nonsexual, assuming or implying that they would not or should not get pregnant.”

A first-of-its-kind statewide firearm injury report from OHSU's newly developing Gun Violence Prevention Research Center reveals thousands of injuries affecting urban and rural counties alike across Oregon.

A story on the increasing rate of young women developing later-stage breast cancer references a 2013 study co-led by Archie Bleyer, M.D.

A recent study led by Pepper Schedin, Ph.D., finds the risk of breast cancer metastasis is 50% higher among women diagnosed within five years of childbirth. Schedin says: “This has profound implications for prognosis. A postpartum diagnosis can move women who appear to have a good prognosis into a high-risk category.”

A new study led by Skyler Jackman, Ph.D., identifies a long-sought gene-encoded protein that enables the brain to communicate a broad range of signals across gaps between neurons, known as synapses.

Obstetrician-gynecologist LeRoy Heinrichs, M.D., Ph.D., who earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from OHSU in 1967 and was a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery and treating infertility, died Sept. 21.

In an interview with KOIN-TV, Peter Graven, Ph.D., says predictors show a potentially severe flu season and suggests people get both the flu shot and COVID booster.

The Hill covers the potential for a “twindemic” as the nation deals with children’s hospitals crowded with cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the flu. The article includes a statement from Doernbecher Children's Hospital: “The best thing parents can do to keep their kids and themselves healthy and safe are to keep doing all their good handwashing and precautions we’ve learned over the last couple years when people are sick, as well as getting their flu vaccines and bivalent COVID boosters when they are able.