OHSU’s Casey Eye Institute and the Foundation Fighting Blindness will co-host their annual Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit April 21 in New Orleans to discuss the latest research and potential treatments for inherited retinal disease.

In a story that describes how their research found the human clitoris has at least 10,000 nerve fibers, Blair Peters, M.D., says: “My biggest hope is that these findings encourage us to question what we think we know. So much of medicine and science is affected by social bias. What is studied and how it was studied was affected by biases at the time the work was carried out. Vulvar sexual health and sexuality in general has long been made taboo.”

Central Oregon Daily highlights the Pathfinder 2 study’s availability at St. Charles in Bend. Cindy Shuman, a St. Charles clinical research coordinator says: “But too often, cancer isn’t found until it’s advanced and harder to treat, and that’s why studies like this are important -- so we can improve early detection. At the same time, participants will feel more informed about their own health and will enjoy the peace of mind that comes with that.”

KTVZ-TV highlights the Pathfinder 2 study’s availability at St. Charles in Bend. Cindy Shuman, a St. Charles clinical research coordinator says: “But too often, cancer isn’t found until it’s advanced and harder to treat, and that’s why studies like this are important -- so we can improve early detection. At the same time, participants will feel more informed about their own health and will enjoy the peace of mind that comes with that.”

Akram Khan, M.D., and others developed a clinical guideline for the respiratory management of patients with neuromuscular weakness that includes advice for mouthpiece ventilation, transition to home mechanical ventilation, salivary secretion management and airway clearance therapies.

In a study that finds adults who have chronic parathyroid hormone insufficiency were more likely to have a cardiovascular event if they have a higher proportion of albumin-corrected serum calcium measurements, Sanjiv Kaul, M.D., and colleagues write: “Although the body of evidence suggests the increased risk for cardiovascular events in patients with chronic hypoparathyroidism is related to abnormalities in serum calcium and phosphate, additional evidence is required."

While discussing babies who are experiencing a sleep regression, Elizabeth Super, M.D., recommends guardians to let babies who are over 4 months old to figure out how to go back to sleep on their own, and describes rocking, feeding and other ways to soothe a baby back to sleep make it difficult for the baby to sleep through the night.

In a CBC story raising questions about “excited delirium” as a cause of death in violent police arrests in Canada, Michael Freeman, M.D., says, “It’s an interesting theory which always directs the gaze for the cause of death away from the restraining personnel, and so if you say it’s excited delirium, it’s basically the fault of the person who died. Then you don’t have to look any further. You don’t have to look at how potentially the restraint killed the person.”

The Oregonian publishes annual searchable database of the Public Employees Retirement System’s pension roll; several retired OHSU physicians and administrators are among the top beneficiaries.

The Oregonian reports that Oregon hospitals, including OHSU, finished 2022 with significant financial losses.