In an op-ed in the Portland Business Journal, banker Mike Williams cites the growth of the health care sector in Oregon, highlighting the OHSU Hospital Expansion Project as an example.

Thirty-two nurses from OHSU’s satellite nursing program at Western Oregon University provided health screening and services for people experiencing homeless in rural areas of Marion and Polk counties.

In a wide-ranging discussion of dental care and oral health issues, Eli Schwarz, D.D.S., Ph.D., says good oral health can be achieved with simple steps like twice-daily brushing with fluoridated toothpaste and an electronic toothbrush, reducing sugary drink intake, stopping smoking, and eating healthy.

Andras Gruber, Ph.D., a former OHSU professor of biomedical engineering, files a $1 million lawsuit against OHSU alleging defamation.

While discussing the upcoming Grammy Awards, Larry Sherman, Ph.D., says practicing music can benefit he brain, including generating neurons and strengthening connections between brain cells: “It turns out that practicing a musical instrument might be the most difficult and challenging thing a human brain can do.”

Fennec Pharmaceuticals, which licensed an OHSU discovery leading to development of the drug Pedmark, has been granted Orphan Drug Exclusivity by the Food and Drug Administration.

Amy Moran, Ph.D., is on a research team receiving a PCF Team Challenge Award to study activating the NLRP3 inflammasome as a potential way to treat advanced prostate cancer.

KGW-TV profiles the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Community Partnership Program, which helps collaborative Oregon groups address community-identified cancer needs. Angela Brown, a leader with the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Portland, which received program funding, says the program helped the church create a community cancer awareness and healthy living symposium to connect uninsured and underinsured Black women and men to cancer health education and support resources in the Portland area. Brown says: “We are able to do a lot of things in our community, especially with the African American community to change the way we cook, to change the way we think; our attitudes about healthy living, about exercising and just eating right.”

The Deep Dive’s coverage of British Columbia becoming the first Canadian province to decriminalize drugs cites a 2021 PBS NewsHour story that included Andrew Seaman, M.D., saying recovery can be challenging when someone is arrested for substance use because that can adversely impact their ability to be employed and housed.

Letisha Wyatt, Ph.D., is among several scientists discussing a new NIH requirement that grant applications include a data-sharing and management plan. She says: “Smaller labs that don’t get giant projects funded or minority scientists who don’t have access to the same level of funding will be in a place where they may not have adequate resources to meet the requirements of this new data-sharing policy in the same way that well-resourced labs might."