The News-Review (Roseburg) features a mother-son pediatrician team who both completed their residences at OHSU Doernbecher and have established their professional practice in their hometown of Roseburg.

In light of the state of Washington’s plans to destroy $1.3 million worth of expiring abortion pills, the Oregon Capital Chronicle reports the Oregon Health Authority, working with OHSU, has secured a stockpile of the abortion pill mifepristone that won’t expire until September 2028.

The Portland Business Journal reports a venture capital firm led by cyclist Lance Armstrong and former Nike executive Melanie Strong met with OHSU and Knight Cancer Institute leaders to identify opportunities involving startups incubated at the university.

Fierce Biotech interviews Brian Druker, M.D., regarding Phil and Penny Knight’s $2 billion gift to the Knight Cancer Institute. He says the institute will prioritize the recruitment of scientists who are never satisfied with the status quo: “I want somebody who’s always curious. ‘Is there something better out there? Is there something that I’m missing, or something else we could be doing?’”

In a Kaiser Family Foundation Health News story for NPR about parents pushing back on rules to allow kids with lice in class, Dawn Nolt, M.D., says: “I think that people are starting to realize the value of in-person school and that really anything that takes them out of that should be scrutinized. Head lice is not a valid reason to keep a kid out of school or be dismissed from school.”

OHSU’s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program ranks 41 st in the country, according to All Nurses. The ranking is based on input from clinician surveys, graduation rates, cost of attendance, mode of delivery, admission rates and more.

on a study published Tuesday that provides new insight into the link between cannabis use and female fertility. Lo says, “It’s important that patients try to abstain from cannabis use when trying to conceive, but for those that cannot, this still offers an opportunity for harm reduction by reducing the amount they’re using to mitigate adverse outcomes to themselves and their fertility, their reproductive health, and their babies.”

Jamie Lo, M.D., offers an outside expert perspective on a study published Tuesday that provides new insight into the link between cannabis use and female fertility. Lo says, “It’s important that patients try to abstain from cannabis use when trying to conceive, but for those that cannot, this still offers an opportunity for harm reduction by reducing the amount they’re using to mitigate adverse outcomes to themselves and their fertility, their reproductive health, and their babies.”

Ophthalmology Advisor covers a new virtual reality tool for education being used at OHSU among other accredited ophthalmology residency programs.

A story in the HuffPost on the prevalence of iron deficiency in pre-menopausal women extensively quotes Joseph Shatzel, M.D., who notes there is no routine screening recommendation in the U.S. for iron deficiency: “My general sense of this is that it hasn’t really been as important as it should be to the medical community because this is a very common thing that the majority of people suffering from are women.”