Research by Bradley Petek, M.D., and others finds total sudden cardiac deaths in college athletes has declined in the past 20 years, but remain high for Division 1 men’s basketball players as well as for male and Black athletes in other sports. Petek says the decline could be due to improved survival rates, better CPR education, access to AEDs or “improvements in pre-participation cardiovascular screening.”

The proposed OHSU-Legacy integration is mentioned in an Oregon Business article about clinicians with 10 women’s health clinics in the Legacy Medical Group who announced their intent to unionize with the Oregon Nurses Association.

A story that features an interview with Ben Hoffman, M.D., regarding the overwhelming surge of young children seriously ill with RSV requiring hospitalization last winter and the current shortage of the new RSV vaccine: “The promise of nirsevimab is that [overwhelming surge] should never, never happen again.”

Research by Bradley Petek, M.D., and others finds total sudden cardiac deaths in college athletes has declined in the past 20 years, but remain high for Division 1 men’s basketball players as well as for male and Black athletes in other sports. Petek says the decline could be due to improved survival rates, better CPR education, access to AEDs or “improvements in pre-participation cardiovascular screening.”

Research by Bradley Petek, M.D., and others finds total sudden cardiac deaths in college athletes has declined in the past 20 years, but remain high for Division 1 men’s basketball players as well as for male and Black athletes in other sports. Petek says the decline could be due to improved survival rates, better CPR education, access to AEDs or “improvements in pre-participation cardiovascular screening.”

In a story on OHSU’s efforts to improve lung cancer screening, Peter Lee, M.D., says: “Early detection is key. We have fantastic advances in chemotherapy and robotic surgeries and radiation, but we haven't been able to tip the scale toward improved five-year survival in the general population and among all the therapies of lung cancer. The biggest benefit in mortality has been lung cancer screening and early detection."

A study led by Dan Hoover, M.D., finds nearly half of people who use illicit drugs in rural areas have been recently incarcerated: “You have a reachable time in jails, and most jails are not providing this kind of addiction care. In a broader sense, our correctional institutions have a mandate to rehabilitate people who have entered the system — and treating addiction is a huge part of that.”

A study led by Dan Hoover, M.D., finds nearly half of people who use illicit drugs in rural areas have been recently incarcerated: “You have a reachable time in jails, and most jails are not providing this kind of addiction care. In a broader sense, our correctional institutions have a mandate to rehabilitate people who have entered the system — and treating addiction is a huge part of that”:

The proposed OHSU-Legacy integration is mentioned in this article about clinicians with 10 women’s health clinics in the Legacy Medical Group who announced their intent to unionize with the Oregon Nurses Association.

OHSU is the first health center in the nation to use a leading-edge knee repair technique to treat osteoarthritis in the knee. Dennis Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., says: “We’ve been looking at this technology for more than a decade. Over that time, I would meet people who had really end of their rope. You know, they couldn't do stuff. They were failing to stay healthy. They were failing to keep up with their work, their children. This is a disease that we don't want to necessarily wait to take care of until the end. You know, most things we like to take care of when we first notice them."