The first patient has been enrolled in a Phase II clinical trial evaluating a reduced dose of a post-transplant immunosuppressive chemotherapy treatment after stem cell transplantation for patients with certain blood cancers. The trial is starting at OHSU and principal investigator Rachel Cook, M.D., says: "I am thrilled about the initiation of the OPTIMIZE clinical trial, which represents a significant advance in blood cancer treatment by exploring the potential of reduced dose PTCy to mitigate adverse effects and ensure broader treatment inclusivity. This trial is a step towards significantly improving patient outcomes by aiming for more personalized and less toxic treatment protocols.”

Many athletes say they drink tart cherry juice to help with inflammation and muscle pain, and a new study by Kerry Kuehl, M.D., finds a small effect in reducing muscle soreness, a moderate effect in aiding muscle strength recovery, and a small reduction in some blood markers for muscle damage or inflammation. “The equivalency of the pain reduction was … about 800 milligrams of ibuprofen,” Kuehl says.

In continued coverage of the OHSU discovery that switching arms for administration of a multi-dose vaccine could improve the effects fourfold, lead author Marcel Curlin, M.D., says, "By switching from one arm to the other, you essentially have memory training in two places instead of one."

For the 15th anniversary of “Coraline,” the first animated feature from Hillsboro’s Laika studio, 30 nearly 6-foot-tall cat sculptures are going to be installed for a “Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail” art exhibition. The sculptures will be auctioned off to raise money for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

A MedPage Today article about an AI chatbot outperforming a panel of ophthalmologists when given prompts about glaucoma and retinal health cites an accompanying commentary by Benjamin Young, M.D., that says "medical errors will potentially be caught in this way," and that "at this time, LLMs should be considered a potentially fast and useful tool to enhance the knowledge of a clinician who has examined a patient and synthesized their active clinical situation."

Many athletes say they drink tart cherry juice to help with inflammation and muscle pain, and a new study by Kerry Kuehl, M.D., finds a small effect in reducing muscle soreness, a moderate effect in aiding muscle strength recovery, and a small reduction in some blood markers for muscle damage or inflammation. “The equivalency of the pain reduction was … about 800 milligrams of ibuprofen,” Kuehl says.

OHSU research that found U.S. collegiate athletes who are male, Black and basketball players are more likely to have a sudden cardiac arrest is mentioned in a story about a Minneapolis family’s efforts to raise awareness about the condition after their son died of it.

For the 15th anniversary of “Coraline,” the first animated feature from Hillsboro’s Laika studio, 30 nearly 6-foot-tall cat sculptures are going to be installed for a “Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail” art exhibition. The sculptures will be auctioned off to raise money for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

For the 15th anniversary of “Coraline,” the first animated feature from Hillsboro’s Laika studio, 30 nearly 6-foot-tall cat sculptures are going to be installed for a “Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail” art exhibition. The sculptures will be auctioned off to raise money for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

In its "Breaking Barriers" series, KGW-TV profiles Walter Reynolds, M.D., the first Black graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School — now OHSU — and one of only two Black doctors in Portland in the mid-1900s.