University of Portland student Sofia Munoz completed a summer research internship at OHSU, where she experimented with the Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for an ongoing COVID-19 project: “This research is important to the field of public health as dried blood spot tests could be useful for people who don’t have the resources to go to a hospital or phlebotomist to get their blood drawn."

A study led by OHSU researchers found using wearable sensors to monitor gait during daily life may be a promising way to identify people with multiple sclerosis who have a greater risk of falling.

OHSU Physician Assistant Program alum Kristin Schmidtgall, M.P.H., M.P.A.S., PA-C, who moved to Pendleton after falling in love with the area during a clinical rotation as a PA student, is named Pendleton Round-Up Volunteer of the Year.

In a BBC-Radio feature exploring misinformation around medication abortion, Maria Rodriguez, M.D., says that data from around the world suggest that abortion carried out as recommended is very safe, while “making the procedure illegal is associated with more safety issues, including hospitalization and death.”

In a story about Southern Oregon Overdose Awareness Day also, Richmond says the leading cause of death among the unhoused is drug overdose.

Lynn M. Marshall, Sc.D., and Susan J. Hayflick, M.D., are part of a research team that developed a biomarker blood test that may provide a better way to diagnose and monitor aortic aneurysms and dissections, both of which can be fatal.

Zheng Xia, Ph.D., and his team collaborate with the University of Michigan on a study suggesting androgen receptor inhibitors can fundamentally rewire and reshape how prostate tumors function.

OHSU’s new statewide COVID-19 forecast highlights the importance of receiving a flu vaccine as well as the new bivalent booster for COVID-19. Peter Graven, Ph.D., says, “Your flu vaccine is extremely important this year -– and certainly more than it has been in the last two years, when we had virtually no flu that was circulating.”

An interview with Alan Teo, M.D., regarding the use of a promising new technique to provide suicide prevention training to loved ones of military veterans:

The National Drowning Prevention Alliance hosted in September the industry's first research summit solely dedicated to water safety and drowning prevention for children and adolescents; Ben Hoffman, M.D., participated and said: "It was incredible to see all of the national leaders in child drowning prevention gathered in one room, working together to address this epidemic. There is so much we do not know about how to prevent drowning, and the issue has never received the attention warranted by the magnitude of the problem. It was amazing to see how the group really dug in and did the hard work to ask the right questions and identify the key issues and potential solutions. This was a crucial first step in the process of preventing drowning among kids."