Features Raina Croff, Ph.D., who says, “Despite the many barriers, we can still feel empowered to change our health. I think that’s important to anybody.”

Johns Hopkins Medicine highlights a new study published by The New England Journal of Medicine in collaboration with OHSU and other institutions that finds a type of shunt in the brain restores mobility and physical safety in older adults with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, a disorder that affects up to 1.5% of people in their late 60s and as many as 1 in 13 older than 86.

In a news release, the National Institutes of Health announces a new research consortium to reduce the risk of stillbirth in the U.S., including the involvement of the Nutrition and Outcomes of Reproductive Injury and Stillbirth-related Harms, or NOURISH, at OHSU led by Karen Gibbins, M.D., and Leslie Myatt, Ph.D

The Knight Cancer Institute is among 61 National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Centers and other organizations to sign a statement endorsing the human papillomavirus vaccine as a safe and effective means of preventing cancer.

Provide St. Vincent Medical Center announced this week that it will permanently close its pediatric intensive care unit, a four-bed unit that served a total of 122 patients last year. Leaders at Legacy Health’s Randall Children’s Hospital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have assured Providence that they can care for these patients.

Provide St. Vincent Medical Center announced this week that it will permanently close its pediatric intensive care unit, a four-bed unit that served a total of 122 patients last year. Leaders at Legacy Health’s Randall Children’s Hospital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have assured Providence that they can care for these patients.

As part of series titled “Innovations In: Alzheimer’s Disease,” Scientific American highlights two OHSU studies of dementia in Black people: African American Dementia and Aging Project, or AADAPt, led by Allison Lindauer, M.D., and Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo Imagery, or SHARP, led by Raina Croff , Ph.D.

To better understand how the contribution of chronic conditions to mortality varies by race and ethnicity, a team of researchers led by Yale School of Medicine’s Heather Allore, PhD, with collaborators from Oregon Health and Science University/Portland State University and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, conducted a large-scale study.

KDRV-TV (Medford) reports the Ashland Community Health Foundation has awarded $198,500 from the William G. and Ruth T. Evans Endowed Nursing Scholarship to 14 OHSU students.

In an The ASCO Post article about building resilience and hope in adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer, Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D., says: “What is impressive about caring for these young patients, in addition to their incredible sense of resilience and hope, is they articulate their prognostic understanding in a slightly different way from older adults. … They will make … poignant comments from which you can intuit that they understand their prognosis.”