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To Your Health: World Cancer Day

The News Guard (Lincoln City) February 04, 2023
The News Guard (Lincoln City) interviews Flavio Rocha, M.D., about the latest breakthroughs in cancer research for World Cancer Day.

EzriCare Eye Drops Recalled as CDC Investigates Link to Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

Health magazine February 04, 2023
In a story about a brand of eye drops being associated with a bacterial eye infection outbreak, Brooke Harkness, O.D, provides recommendations to avoid bacterial eye infections, including not sleeping in contacts, not washing contacts with tap water and using eye drops that are available in small containers or in a bottle with a contamination-preventing valve and filter.

To Your Health: World Cancer Day

The Tillamook Headlight Herald February 04, 2023
The Tillamook Headlight Herald interviews Flavio Rocha, M.D., about World Cancer Day, Feb. 4. He says, “It is difficult to say how long it will be with us, but what is encouraging is that we have made significant progress as we learn more about the genetics, through profiling, as our drug discovery has improved, as our surgical techniques have improved and as our radiation technology has improved.”

OHSU nursing students face poverty in role-playing simulation

Herald and News February 03, 2023
OHSU School of Nursing Klamath Falls Campus hosts a poverty simulation for OHSU and other health profession students. Lauri Gimpel, RN, M.S.N., says the simulation explores the day-to-day realities of living in poverty and can help OHSU nursing students better serve their future patients.

More on psilocybin

Current Psychiatry February 02, 2023
In a letter published by Current Psychiatry, Aryan Sarparast, M.D., clarifies a common misconception about Oregon legalizing the use of psilocybin. He writes, “The intention of the Oregon Psilocybin Services rollout was that these services would not be of the medical model.”
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