The Portland Tribune features an indie-rock band comprising OHSU nurses Katie Dahlberg, RN, Dan Gicker, RN, Billy Volpone, RN, and Barb Whisler, RN. Gicker says, “We did what nurses do; just put your head into it, and try to plow through it without hurting yourself either physically or mentally.”

AMA story references OHSU initiative that aims to train physicians who are committed to working in rural areas and areas with limited access to health care.

KOIN reports on a new statewide service providing emergency medical responders with access to Oregon children’s medical history. Ben Hoffman, M.D., says, “Child health emergencies are stressful for everybody. So anything that we can do to make sure that the first responders have all the information, not just about the medical condition, but also the sort of individual needs of that child or young adult, the better off we’re all going to be.”

Scientists at OHSU have revealed, for the first time and in near-atomic detail, the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing. Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., says, “This is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery has remained unknown.” Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., adds, “The auditory neuroscience field has been waiting for these results for decades, and now that they are right here, we are ecstatic.”

Peter Graven, Ph.D., says protection against severe disease nonetheless remains strong because of durable immunity among most of the population: “There (are) very few people who haven’t had exposure yet.”

The Siuslaw News profiles a coastal resident who will need a kidney and pancreas transplant at OHSU.

Flavio Rocha, M.D., discusses the role of transplant in early-stage biliary tract cancer in a video interview.

The University of Oregon will auction off 20 special-edition breast cancer awareness football helmets to benefit breast cancer research at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

State of Reform reports on AFSCME Local 328 voting to ratify a labor contract with OHSU.

Eliza Hayes Bakken, M.D., says vaccination is an important tool to prevent COVID-19. She says, “While children are proportionately less affected, they’re not unaffected (by COVID). There are deaths and long-term complications in children that make us concerned.”