While discussing Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating roflumilast cream as a potential treatment for atopic dermatitis, or eczema, Eric Simpson, M.D., M.C.R., explains he studies the skin disease because he “was drawn to helping patients and families find safe and effective solutions, (and this therapy gets us a step closer to long-term control in a safe manner.”

An OHSU study found the eye-imaging technology optical coherence tomography can offer a quantitative biomarker for the peripheral stage of the blindness-causing condition retinopathy of prematurity.

“Research is 99% frustration, 1% pure elation,” Myatt said, adding that he’s referencing Thomas Edison. “This was definitely one of those moments of pure elation, that’s for sure.”

Benjamin Hoffman, M.D., was among those who testified before Multnomah County commissioners Nov. 28 as they considered banning the sale of flavored tobacco products. Hoffman said there is “no coincidence” that products are sold flavors like banana split and blueberry cake, which he said are aimed at hooking kids on tobacco.

Research led by Cindy McEvoy, M.D., found children have significantly improved airway function through age five after their parent, who was unable to quit smoking, took vitamin C. McEvoy says: “It’s important that we have a way to protect the baby’s developing lungs, even if their parent is struggling to quit smoking. These findings have identified an accessible, effective way to ensure optimal respiratory health outcomes both in-utero and throughout a child’s young life.”

Reality Break Games and a Tualatin dad are collecting Pokémon cards and games for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital to show thanks for the hospital staff who cared for the father’s son last year.

Dr. Leslie Myatt, OHSU professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of perinatal research, said up to 100,000 pregnancies per year in the United State are estimated to be ectopic pregnancies.

Joint OHSU-OSU research has developed a nanoparticle-based method that seeks to improve the diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancies, a life-threatening pregnancy complication that kills about 70 Americans annually. Leslie Myatt, Ph.D. says: “Too many people become seriously ill and even die because the best-available methods to detect and treat ectopic pregnancies simply aren’t good enough. I hope research like this will create better options for those who unfortunately experience an ectopic pregnancy.”

The BBC short film “Hikikomori: Why do we run?” about the condition of extreme social withdrawal includes expert insight by Alan Teo, M.D. Teo is also a co-author of a questionnaire to detect the condition that is highlighted in a Kyushu University press release.

Research led by Blair Peters, M.D., finds the human clitoris has more than 10,000 nerve fibers. Noting transmasculine patient volunteers who underwent gender-affirming phalloplasty surgery donated the clitoral tissue that made this study possible, Peters says: “If we start limiting care for one group, everyone else indirectly suffers too.”