In an HCP Hospitalist story about hospitalists improving screening for Hepatitis C among inpatients, Cara Varley, M.D., says, “Most of the cases we’re seeing now are occurring in those under 30 years.”

The Portland Tribune features first-generation women’s basketball players at Portland State University, including sophomore guard Esmeralda Morales, who is studying applied health and fitness and says she appreciates the partnership between PSU and OHSU: “I love how when I go to labs, I see people in scrubs and just really see the real life. I really like how the hospital is connected and the science is huge here.”

Lund shares specifics on OHA-ordered temporary health care workers, who began to arrive at OHSU in mid-December. Contract nurses and respiratory therapists have been essential to in managing the surge of patients with respiratory illnesses and other medical issues over the past several months.

Results from a phase 3 trial led by Genescopy find a stool-based, non-invasive, at-home test aimed at detecting colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas yielded high sensitivity and specificity results. David Lieberman, M.D., says: “Geneoscopy’s test and the positive clinical trial results are promising because patients need additional convenient options that will accurately detect colon cancer, as well as advanced adenomas, before patients have cancer. If we can identify patients with advanced adenomas and remove those lesions, many cancers can be prevented.”

Becker’s Hospital Review lists the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute among “60 hospitals and health systems with great oncology programs headed into 2023.” The article says the institute’s research has led to “advances in ways to fight cancer, aiding the goals to free the world from the burden of the disease.”

A recent OHSU analysis that showed Oregon’s addiction care system is half the size it should be to meet demand is mentioned in an OPB story on the important of peer mentors in helping people with substance use disorder.

The latest OHSU statewide forecast reveals that RSV and flu have peaked but to expect a bump in hospitalizations over the next few weeks due to the highly contagious XBB.1.5 variant. Bill Messer, M.D., Ph.D., says, “People can still get deathly ill and die from COVID. It’s understandable that people want to relax precautions, but we should not lose track of the fact that this is a dangerous virus, particularly in vulnerable people, and probably always will be.”

KGW-TV examines a recent study stating that social media usage could be reshaping how adolescent brains develop. Bonnie Nagel, Ph.D., discusses the caveats to this claim and emphasizes that the topic requires further research: “You can't say that their brains developed this way because of that social media use. You can only say people who have that type of social media use at age 12 have different brain trajectories."

Jeremy Cetnar, M.D., is the inaugural guest on OncLive’s “On Air” podcast to discuss “the ins-and-outs of defining personal and professional success, perceptions around sought-after accolades and accomplishments, the meaning behind mentoring, and more.”

New research led by Jane Zhu, M.D., reveals private equity firms that acquire physician-owned medical practices experience greater churn in the workforce and rely more heavily on advanced practice providers rather than physicians. She says, “We really ought to be paying more attention to how these big-picture practice delivery shifts are affecting physicians.”