Healio Woman's Health covers a recent paper by OB/GYN resident Osinakachukwu Mbata, M.D., that found pregnant women living in rural counties are more likely to deliver before 39 weeks’ gestation compared with those living in non-rural counties: “It is unclear if these differences are the result of medical necessity, differences in timing of spontaneous delivery or variance in application of the 39-week rule.”

Craigan Usher, M.D., weighs in on how to embrace unexpected learning moments with kids: “The best learning is emergent -- it emerges from a child’s interest. So maybe we could think about this as an opportunity.”

OHSU clinicians promote the wide distribution of naloxone to reverse drug overdoses, including fentanyl that is 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin. “Every overdose death is preventable,” says Honora Englander, M.D.

The educational and informational table was set on the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) campus in Southwest Portland on Tuesday morning. The public health team was posted as one of several booths at the campus' farmers market ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day on Wednesday.

In a Portland Monthly article on Oregon’s only Islamic K-12 school, one student is highlighted as being “tapped for a prestigious research internship” at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

Chris Stauffer, M.D., comments on a new study that found psilocybin helped people with alcohol use disorder reduce drinking: “The science shows that in virtually all the psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy trials for substance use disorders, greater mystical experience was associated with greater therapeutic change."

Oregon Health News talks with Eric Stecker, M.D., about how COVID-19 affects the heart: “COVID-19 can cause the heart to do its job — pumping blood — less efficiently.”

The city of Lakeview will host an auction to benefit an OHSU Knight Cancer patient battling stage 4 metastatic colon cancer.

Charles Roberts, Ph.D., describes a new nonhuman primate study that will look for the molecular clues that increase the chances that someone who survives an initial COVID-19 infection will later develop diabetes and obesity.

In a sponsored Portland Business Journal article, Portland State University researcher Robert Stongin, Ph.D., calls out the strong collaboration his team has with the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute: “The reason I moved here and to PSU in 2007 was because it was so close to OHSU. I never dreamed I would be given a second lab at a life science building with world-renowned cancer researchers in a big space built for sharing, and also now having the new Knight cancer early detection building.”