Members of The Dalles community are raising funds to support a local man with collapsed lungs who is receiving care at OHSU.

More than 7,400 OHSU employees are voting on a labor contract that OHSU and AFSCME bargaining teams negotiated.

An OHSU-PSU School of Public Health-led report provides an in-depth inventory and gap analysis of substance use disorder services that are available across the continuum of care, providing specific data on where to target interventions, treatments and recovery services throughout Oregon.

A study by Willi Horner-Johnson, Ph.D., found people with disabilities are more likely to smoke during pregnancy and have an increased risk for preterm birth and low birth weight infants.

Eric Herman, M.D., provides practical tips on what people can do to protect themselves against COVID given the current state of the pandemic on a Russian-language program.

Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., joins the Nuvectis Pharma scientific advisory board.

A story about Providence, Legacy and PeaceHealth alleging the Oregon Health Authority forces them to provide long-term care for civilly committed patients notes OHSU, Legacy and Kaiser Permanente jointly operate the Unity Center for Behavioral Health, which is the only psychiatric facility in the state where every patient who walks through the door receives care.

In an article on ferritin –- a protein that stores and releases iron and is essential for producing red blood cells -- Thomas DeLoughery, M.D., says: “Ferritin is the bricks for the warehouse of iron. A little bit of ferritin leaks out to the tissues and that’s proportional to how much iron stores you have in your body.”

OHSU’s statewide COVID-19 forecast is mentioned in a story about the current state of the pandemic and the potential for a “twin-demic” involving large numbers of COVID-19 and flu cases.

Flavio Rocha, M.D., gives a video interview to OncLive on staging biliary tract cancers and says: “We know cancers don’t grow in 1 dimension; they grow in 3 dimensions.”