The Lund Report reports on former VP of Public Affairs Abby Tibbs’ transition to the governor's office.

In an interview with Med Page Today, Ian Fields, M.D., states that OB/GYN has become an increasingly competitive specialty for residency placements, noting that residency applications to OHSU have increased by 15%.

House Bill 2002 would expand insurance coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care. Christina Milano, M.D., medical director of the OHSU Transgender Health Program, says that ensuring transgender Oregonians are able to access health care in a safe environment can impact their overall health.

KOIN-TV follows the journey of patient Rick Cranston as he receives a life-changing surgery -- MRI-guided focused ultrasound -- for his essential tremor, a movement disorder that causes the hand to shake uncontrollably.

OHSU Professor Emeritus Joe Gray, Ph.D., gives a talk on the need for better public understanding of radioactivity and its biological effects.

In a story highlighting biofabrication, which could be used to build transplantable human organs in the future, Haylie Helms, M.S., discusses how she 3D prints individual cells: “Kind of like how an inkjet printer works –- you have all of your different colors. I can just put different cell types in each of the channels.”

OHSU’s COVID-19 therapy clinic on Portland’s South Waterfront is the only clinic statewide to offer patients the antiviral medication remdesivir. YoungYoon Ham, Pharm.D. says: “Receiving treatment within days of becoming sick is especially important for those who have a higher risk of getting severely sick.”

The HOWTO Grant Program, a partnership between OHA and OHSU that supports community-based and innovative training initiatives to address health care workforce needs in rural and medically underserved areas of the state, is highlighted in a The World (Coos Bay) article on training traditional health workers.

Elle Tilden, Ph.D., CNM, is quoted in a press release from Stork Club announcing the launch of a maternity program, supported by a clinical study showing significant reduction in preterm births and unnecessary C-sections; Tilden, who is clinical director of maternity care at Stork Club, says: "There is strong evidence to suggest that doula care is a cost-effective approach to significantly improving maternal/child outcomes, and our study of the Stork Club Birth Doula program aligns with this overall body of research. Given our current maternal health and maternal health equity crisis, we need to advance impactful and evidence-based health care systems solutions within commercial insurance."

In a Cancer Today story featuring a new study on adding stereotactic body radiation therapy to standard care, Nima Nabavizadeh, M.D., says: “What is unique about the study is that it enrolled a population of patients with very advanced cancers. In addition, some patients had metastatic disease. So, [the findings speak] to a broad, locally advanced population that unfortunately doesn’t have a lot of therapeutic options available to them.”