In coverage of a pair of Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies who were shot, David Zonies, M.D., describes a life-threatening injury.

In a TODAY story about difficulties accessing even basic health care for transgender patients, Blair Peters, M.D., says, “We’re still nowhere near having an adequate number of providers that are well trained for the whole community’s needs. There may be one or two providers for an entire region or a state or a county.”

A press release announces that Danny Jacobs, M.D., is named as a new at-large director of America’s Essential Hospitals.

Kylee Martens, M.D., discusses new study findings that the incidence of venous thromboembolism — or blood clots in the veins — remained high among patients with cancer. Martens says: “These results suggest that patient-specific and treatment-specific factors, accounting for changes in the treatment landscape over time, play a critical role in assessing the risk [for cancer-associated thrombosis], and ongoing efforts to identify these patterns are of utmost importance for risk stratification and prognostic assessment.”

Voice Male highlights a new book, The Masculinity Workbook for Teens: Cracking the Guy Code to be Your Authentic Self, by Christopher Reigeluth, Ph.D.

Willamette Week reports that Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt will partner with OHSU’s Gun Violence Prevention Research Center to form a commission to review recent gun violence and what could have been done to stop it.

Asked about informational picketing by nurses, OHSU provides a statement: “OHSU deeply values its nursing staff, and appreciates the time and effort that have gone into this bargaining cycle. We are dedicated to bargaining toward our shared goals of a safe, healthy and respectful working environment. As the process proceeds, the OHSU bargaining team looks forward to continuing thoughtful, productive negotiations.”

The Portland Business Journal reports on OHSU’s decision to raise pay for research staff members.

Despite a national opioid overdose epidemic supercharged by a surge of illicit fentanyl, OHSU-led research reveals wide discrepancies among U.S. states in effectively treating opioid use disorder among people covered by Medicaid.

In a video interview with OncLive, Jen-Jane Liu, M.D., discusses how prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET imaging may help inform lymph node dissection in the localized disease setting for patients with prostate cancer.