OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is among pediatric hospitals that benefit from the $1.6 million raised by First Tech Federal Credit Union through a Credit Unions for Kids fundraising campaign.

In Oregon, hospitals are full, budgets are strained, and staffing is short — and not because of COVID cases. Matthias Merkel, M.D., Ph.D., says: “We’re running a full hospital every day for months. We’re essentially using every area we can and have to board patients in our emergency room who should be in an inpatient area. We can only admit the next patient when the previous patient has discharged.”

Doris Kretzschmar, Ph.D., and Alexander D. Law, B.S., contributed to research that found chronic exposure to blue light causes more harm in older fruit flies.

OHSU partners with Adventist Health Tillamook to use robotic assistance technology to help diagnose and treat stroke patients in Tillamook.

In a story evaluating misleading online claims about the monkeypox outbreak, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., says the current outbreak likely originated from West Africa and “there is no evidence to suggest that the virus circulating internationally escaped from any lab.”

Use of telehealth instead of, or as well as, in-person maternal care results in similar and sometimes better clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction, according to new research by Amy Cantor, M.D. She says, "Replacing or supplementing in-person maternal care with telehealth-delivered care generally results in similar, and sometimes better, clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction compared with in-person care."

Jenny Cadigan describes how OHSU encourages its staff to use alternatives to driving their personal vehicles to work, including a bike loan program, subsidized Lyft rides for workers whose shifts end when public transit isn’t readily available, wage-based parking rates and subsidized public transit passes.

An OHSU study found a higher body mass index could be a risk factor in how effective the morning-after pill is in preventing pregnancy, and doubling the standard dose did not improve outcomes.

Popular lifestyle website The List cites OHSU Knight Cancer Institute in an advice column about what not to say to someone who was diagnosed with cancer.

The Chief newspaper in Clatskanie, Ore., investigates the Columbia Health District hospital project, citing a letter by former director of the Office of Rural Health at OHSU, Scott Ekblad, that says, “The community of St. Helens was eligible to participate in the Flex Program and build a critical access hospital -– the only hospital model that can financially survive in that community.”