In a Healio Rheumatology story about the utility of routine or annual COVID-19 vaccinations for an evolving virus, Kevin Winthrop, M.D., says, “These things are going to come and go. We need to see how long-term studies play out and how variants evolve.”

Cold temperatures raise the risk of health impacts, especially hypothermia, among unsheltered people. In a KATU-TV story, Shana Kusin, M.D., says, “As people get colder, they might get sleepier and then may settle in and not realize how cold they’re really getting.”

KPTV-TV covers new national effort led by OHSU to determine the role that respectful maternity care plays in improving health outcomes. Amy Cantor, M.D., says, “Rates of maternal death and maternal illness in this country are some of the worst of any comparable country.”

Despite an alarming increase in overdose deaths among young people nationwide, a new “secret shopper”-style study finds that access to residential addiction treatment centers for adolescents in the United States is limited and costly. Ryan Cook, Ph.D., says, “When your kid is in a crisis and needs treatment, it can be terrifying to know where to turn. Many parents or family members will look first for residential care and find the experience profoundly disheartening. Systems-level changes are needed to ensure effective, affordable treatment options for adolescents.”

Maureen Baldwin, M.D., discusses IUDs with AirTalk, a program on Los Angeles' NPR station, and answers listener questions. She says, "The IUD can be really helpful for the transition between perimenopause in your 40s to early menopause in your early 50s because it can help reduce heavy menstrual bleeding that's common during that time period."

Despite an alarming increase in overdose deaths among young people nationwide, a new “secret shopper”-style study finds that access to residential addiction treatment centers for adolescents in the United States is limited and costly. Ryan Cook, Ph.D., says, “When your kid is in a crisis and needs treatment, it can be terrifying to know where to turn. Many parents or family members will look first for residential care and find the experience profoundly disheartening. Systems-level changes are needed to ensure effective, affordable treatment options for adolescents.”

Salon covers the renewed trend of ingesting colloidal silver as a cure-all for ailments, which Rob Hendrickson, M.D., warns can be dangerous or even fatal: “If you take a very large amount or injected IV, those types of things, then that can cause organ failure and you can get very, very sick.”

Peter Graven, Ph.D., tells the (Salem) Statesman Journal that Oregon’s 2023 to 2024 respiratory virus season has yielded fewer hospitalizations than the past two years and is predicted to remain relatively mild. “Cautiously, I’d say things look good, but that doesn’t mean it’s over yet,” he says.

In a Breaking Cancer News story on advancements in the adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer space, Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D., says: “From designing clinical trials in a way that sees pediatric and adult areas working together, to changing the age of eligibility to better include AYA patients, there are positive changes occurring.”

In coverage of Ashland’s discussions about potentially lowering the temperature threshold for opening its emergency shelter, Helen Turner, D.N.P., of the OHSU Street Nursing Team in Southern Oregon advocates for opening emergency shelters at higher temperatures, saying, “Many people can get hypothermia even at 50 degrees if they’re cold, if it’s windy, if they’re wet.”