Three Hockinson High School students organized a toy drive to benefit OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Oregon State Sen. Bill Hansel announces his recurrent prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment plan at OHSU.

KGW-TV profiles Forest Grove’s “Santa Mickey” and his daughter, Cheryl Aamodt, who raise money during the holidays for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society following her leukemia diagnosis. Cheryl took the drug Gleevec, developed at OHSU, saying “that’s what’s kept me alive the last 20, almost 23 years.”

OHSU received a record $595.9 million in research funding during its 2023 fiscal year, which Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., says was the result of increased, focused efforts of researchers from throughout the university: “While the institution as a whole (is) doing okay, individual researchers are working harder and probably submitting more grants than in the past, and that’s keeping us doing fine.”

OHSU received a record $595.9 million in research funding during its 2023 fiscal year, which Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., says was the result of increased, focused efforts of researchers from throughout the university: “While the institution as a whole (is) doing okay, individual researchers are working harder and probably submitting more grants than in the past, and that’s keeping us doing fine.”

An Idaho Capital Sun story mentions Kootenai Health’s connections to the OHSU Transgender Health Program while reporting on an impeding Idaho ban on gender-affirming medication.

An overview of major healthcare happenings in 2023 includes OHSU’s planned integration with Legacy Health, unionization efforts and Abby Tibbs’ departure to Oregon Health Authority.

Katie Drago, M.D., describes the increase risk of fall-related injuries as “a growing public health emergency.”

How OHSU heart surgeon Albert Starr, M.D., collaborated with engineer M. Lowell Edwards to develop the first artificial heart valve in the 1950s.

A prisoner being evaluated in the OHSU Emergency Department, under the supervision of Multnomah County deputies, escaped custody after climbing through a bathroom ceiling tile.