Presenter: Ahmad Masri, M.D., MS, Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Oregon Health & Science University Date: September 28, 2025

A new multicenter randomized controlled study that started at OHSU suggests changing clinical guidance for treatment of spinal cord injury. Brandon Togioka, M.D., says, “While this study does not support allowing patients to have low blood pressure, it does suggest that aggressively elevating blood pressure may be doing more harm than good.”

OHSU's Raina Croff, Ph.D., who says, “Despite the many barriers, we can still feel empowered to change our health. I think that’s important to anybody.”

Features Raina Croff, Ph.D., who says, “Despite the many barriers, we can still feel empowered to change our health. I think that’s important to anybody.”

Johns Hopkins Medicine highlights a new study published by The New England Journal of Medicine in collaboration with OHSU and other institutions that finds a type of shunt in the brain restores mobility and physical safety in older adults with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, a disorder that affects up to 1.5% of people in their late 60s and as many as 1 in 13 older than 86.

In a news release, the National Institutes of Health announces a new research consortium to reduce the risk of stillbirth in the U.S., including the involvement of the Nutrition and Outcomes of Reproductive Injury and Stillbirth-related Harms, or NOURISH, at OHSU led by Karen Gibbins, M.D., and Leslie Myatt, Ph.D

The Knight Cancer Institute is among 61 National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Centers and other organizations to sign a statement endorsing the human papillomavirus vaccine as a safe and effective means of preventing cancer.

Provide St. Vincent Medical Center announced this week that it will permanently close its pediatric intensive care unit, a four-bed unit that served a total of 122 patients last year. Leaders at Legacy Health’s Randall Children’s Hospital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have assured Providence that they can care for these patients.

Provide St. Vincent Medical Center announced this week that it will permanently close its pediatric intensive care unit, a four-bed unit that served a total of 122 patients last year. Leaders at Legacy Health’s Randall Children’s Hospital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have assured Providence that they can care for these patients.

As part of series titled “Innovations In: Alzheimer’s Disease,” Scientific American highlights two OHSU studies of dementia in Black people: African American Dementia and Aging Project, or AADAPt, led by Allison Lindauer, M.D., and Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo Imagery, or SHARP, led by Raina Croff , Ph.D.