Nathalie Pamir, Ph.D., led a study that found high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, which is commonly called “good” cholesterol, doesn’t universally reduce people’s risk for developing heart disease as has been widely thought. Instead, low levels of HDL are associated with reduced cardiovascular risks for white adults, but not Black adults, while high HDL wasn’t associated with reduced risk - regardless of race.

Nathalie Pamir, Ph.D., led a study that found high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, which is commonly called “good” cholesterol, doesn’t universally reduce people’s risk for developing heart disease as has been widely thought. Instead, low levels of HDL are associated with reduced cardiovascular risks for white adults, but not Black adults, while high HDL wasn’t associated with reduced risk - regardless of race.

“The goal was to understand this long-established link that labels HDL as the beneficial cholesterol, and if that’s true for all ethnicities,” said Nathalie Pamir, Ph.D., the study’s senior author and an associate professor of medicine at the Knight Cardiovascular Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, in a statement.

A survey led by Teri Greiling, M.D., Ph.D., finds about two-thirds of patients with the skin condition plaque psoriasis have experienced psychosocial, sexual and mental health distress.

The first-ever traditional salmon bake and powwow celebrates the Native culture within Chiloquin Junior/Senior High School’s student body. Will Hess, a Klamath Tribal member who works with students through the On Track OHSU! program, organized the event with help from community organizations.

In a New York Times story on how to tell the difference between distraction and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, Joel Nigg, Ph.D., says the key to diagnosing the condition, requires “determining that it’s serious, it’s extreme” and it’s interfering with people’s lives.

A new statewide forecast led by Peter Graven, Ph.D., suggests Oregon hospitals will be under intense strain for the next several weeks managing a wave of critically ill infants and toddlers suffering from RSV. The forecast projects RSV hospitalizations, including infants and toddlers, could peak on Nov. 30.

Hundreds of residents in neurological surgery across the United States trained on a first-of-its-kind simulator, originally developed at OHSU, intended to mimic the type of real-life catastrophe they may face in operating rooms. Nate Selden, M.D., Ph.D., says: "This study shows that simulation of real, complex situations in the neurosurgical operating room is feasible and economical across an entire specialty."

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.”

For another, as physician Dawn Nolt, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, said in an email to Changing America, it is difficult to make something that is very safe in infants, who are most susceptible to RSV, and that stimulates their “immature immune systems” enough to protect them.