In response to a question submitted to The New York Times' "Ask Well" section about why some people tend to feel more tired than usual when it’s cloudy or rainy, Al Lewy, M.D., suggests it could be because of something going on in the body that experts don’t fully understand.

A KOIN-TV story about how a stolen vehicle mission has resulted in several recent arrests, mentions the collaboration between the Portland Police Bureau and scientists at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, which uses data science to help solve the problem of stolen vehicles.

Erin Maynard, M.D., participates in a panel discussion about Native Americans having the highest rate of death from liver disease and being less likely than other racial groups to be placed on liver transplant wait lists.

Honora Englander, M.D., is quoted in the final segment of STAT News’ four-part series highlighting resistance in the U.S. to addiction medication such as methadone, despite the fact that barely a fifth of Americans with opioid use disorder receive treatment and tens of thousands are dying annually. Citing the contrast in France, where she’s studying under a Fulbright scholarship, Englander says, “There are stunning differences in terms of treatment access, and there are stunning differences in terms of overdose rates. … The work of being a patient in France is far less. Instead of traveling daily to [a methadone clinic], patients can — even relatively early in treatment — get several weeks of methadone at a time from their local community pharmacy. The bar to access treatment is so much lower, and it’s not chaos. People are getting really good care.”

In a story about how a stolen vehicle mission has resulted in several recent arrests, KEX Radio mentions the collaboration between the Portland Police Bureau and scientists at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute to use data science to help solve the problem of stolen vehicles.

Researchers at the University of Oregon and OHSU, led by Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., studied whether digital campaigns can increase the public’s knowledge of melanoma and promote the practice of self-examining one’s skin for new and unusual moles. Autumn Shafer, an associate professor at the University of Oregon, says: “It's the only cancer that you can look and see with your own eyes. But people don't really know what melanoma is or how to check their skin for it.”

Melody Redfield, 10, of Corvallis, explains how the OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s Myopia Management Program helped her receive special contacts that are FDA-approved to treat nearsightedness. Without contacts, she had difficulty reading the whiteboard in the front of her classroom.

In a MedicalNewsToday article about a study that explored whether herbs and spices influence the health of the gut microbiome, David Clarke, M.D., says: “In this study, people who consumed larger amounts of polyphenols in their diet had higher levels of beneficial bacteria in their gut and lower levels of more toxic bacteria. However, there are other possible explanations for the findings of the study.”

OHSU scientists advance a technique to turn a skin cell into an egg. This discovery could help same-sex couples, others have children genetically related to both parents.

OHSU scientists advance a technique to turn a skin cell into an egg. This discovery could help same-sex couples, others have children genetically related to both parents.