An OPB segment highlights the recent FDA approval of sodium thiosulfate, a drug studied for years by OHSU researchers that prevents treatment-induced hearing loss in pediatric cancer patients who receive the common chemotherapy drug Cisplatin. The segment includes insight from Kristin Knight, M.S., and Jennifer Boesche, whose child received cancer therapy at the hospital.

Research by Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., and Marcel Curlin, M.D., finds immunity against COVID-19 gathers strength with more time between vaccination and infection and suggests vaccine boosters should be spaced no more frequently than a year apart.

A Register-Guard story about how funds generated through the state’s drug-decriminalizing law, Measure 110, are going toward peer support mentoring for people experiencing substance use disorder notes OHSU research found Oregon has about half the resources it needs to address the disorder.

In a Consumer Reports story about various consumer products purporting to reduce back pain by improving posture, Scott Beadnell, DPT, says, “Generally, we think of those as gimmicks.”

Using a technique called intracranial EEG, OHSU and University of Oregon research finds simple movement like pushing a button sends ripples of activity through neuron networks located throughout the brain.

An OHSU pilot program is billing patients in some instances when providers respond to electronic messages with complex requests that require time and expertise.

News coverage of calls to end the long-standing practice of universities and colleges withholding student transcripts due to outstanding debts notes OHSU recently changed its policy to end this practice.

William Messer, M.D., Ph.D., says updated, bivalent COVID-19 vaccines continue to protect people against hospitalization when they’re infected with the highly transmissible subvariant XBB.1.5.

Research by Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., and Marcel Curlin, M.D., finds immunity against COVID-19 gathers strength with more time between vaccination and infection and suggests vaccine boosters should be spaced no more frequently than a year apart.

The Lund Report describes how the OHSU School of Nursing’s Oregon Nursing Education Academy, which aims to prepare 63 clinical nurse faculty and 92 nurse preceptors by 2026, is helping address a shortage of educators needed to teach the next generation of clinical nurses.