Students from Astoria High School helped raise money for the breast cancer/mammography fund at Columbia Memorial Hospital — Oregon Health and Science University Knight Cancer Collaborative by completing a medicine ball workout.

OHSU is among 27 health systems nationwide preferred by a 2 to 1 margin over local competitors, according to polling of patients and physicians by WebMD.

Blair Peters, MD, a plastic surgeon at OHSU who specializes in gender-affirming care, led the study, which was presented at the Sexual Medicine Society of North America conference in October. Peters says he hopes that the new information decreases stigma that the clitoris is not worthy of the same medical attention that other organs of the body receive.

In a forecast, Oregon Health & Science University predicted that Covid-19 hospitalizations in Oregon could peak at about 280 by early December, Jeanne said. There are currently 229 people with Covid in Oregon hospitals.

In a story about infants with RSV on KOIN, Dawn Nolt, M.D., M.P.H., says, “If there are any signs of respiratory difficulty, coughing, breathing hard, not being able to eat or not having a good urine output, that’s when we want families to take that sick child to see a provider.”

OHSU’s Multiple Sclerosis Center joins an initiative by Helius Medical Technologies in an open-label observational trial to evaluate a portable neuromodulation stimulator for treatment of MS.

OHSU researchers pinpoint adenosine as a counterbalance to dopamine in the brain. Haining Zhong, Ph.D., says, “There are two neuronal circuits: one that helps promotes action and the other that inhibits action. Dopamine promotes the first circuit to enable movement, and adenosine is the ‘brake’ that promotes the second circuit and brings balance to the system.”

In response to a New England Journal of Medicine study questioning the efficacy of colonoscopies in preventing colon cancer, David Lieberman, M.D., says it’s too early to draw conclusions from the study results. He says: “Only 42% percent of the patients in the ‘invited’ group got the screening, and when you look at just those who got it done, the results were more in line with what we expected. Bottom line, screening can be effective only if it is done.”

Research by Blair Peters, M.D., found the human clitoris has more than 10,000 nerve fibers. Peters says: “The fact that it took until 2022 for someone to do this work speaks to how little attention the clitoris has received.”

The Oregonian cites OHSU’s forecast that an expected wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections this fall won’t lead to a major surge in hospitalizations.