Lawrence Furnstahl is listed among the "84 academic medical center CFOs to know" in 2023 by Becker's Hospital Review.

The Oregon Nurses Association announced that 62 workers at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health voted on Wednesday to unionize, with more than 95% voting in favor.

NPR profiles seven-year-old OHSU patient Winnie Hoyt who was born with a rare genetic condition that impairs her ability to walk and speak. The story describes her family's desire for her to receive eye gaze therapy through Portland Public Schools, and the challenges associated with school districts billing Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.

In an article on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), James Lewis, Pharm.D., says "During COVID-19, you saw a major uptick in a lot of the resistant organisms that we had been making some progress against over the last five years."

The NIH website publishes a "Science Update" feature article on a study led by Alison Edelman, M.D., M.P.H., finding Individuals with COVID-19 may experience a slight increase in menstrual cycle length, comparable to the menstrual cycle increase seen among those who received a COVID-19 vaccine.

A new study reveals a remarkable advance toward helping patients speak again after a debilitating stroke by decoding a patient's brain signals into written and vocalized language and enabled an avatar on a computer screen to speak the words and display smiles and other expressions. Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D., consulted on the study and said the studies used predictive language models to help guess words in sentences. The systems don’t just match words but are “figuring out new language patterns” as they improve their recognition of participants’ neural activity.

A new study reveals a remarkable advance toward helping patients speak again after a debilitating stroke by decoding a patient's brain signals into written and vocalized language and enabled an avatar on a computer screen to speak the words and display smiles and other expressions. Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D., consulted on the study and said the studies used predictive language models to help guess words in sentences. The systems don’t just match words but are “figuring out new language patterns” as they improve their recognition of participants’ neural activity.

An evidence review led by Roger Chou, M.D., informs U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation that clinicians prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis to individuals at high risk for HIV to prevent infection with the virus.

A first-known study led by Bethany Samuelson Bannow, M.D., finds many menstrual products had a much lower or higher liquid capacity than advertised when real blood was used instead of a saline solution more commonly employed in the product development process. The results suggest that doctors may be underdiagnosing heavy menstrual bleeding, which can be a sign of certain medical conditions.

The American Association of Pediatrics published a new recommendation, co-authored by Jamie Peterson, M.D., M.P.H., that corporal punishment in all school settings be abolished in all states by law and replaced by alternative forms of student behavior management.