In a Bend Bulletin article about how some DACA beneficiaries how flourished despite uncertainty, OHSU School of Dentistry graduate Eddie Ramirez, D.M.D., is profiled.

In editorial authored by Esther Choo, M.D., on the inaccessibility of birth control, Maria Rodriguez, M.D., says: "Cost and financial concerns — time off work, co-pays, transportation — still remain key barriers for people in getting the care they need. This is particularly true in states that have not expanded Medicaid, or for women with high deductible private plans.”

The Latest COVID-19 forecast by Peter Graven, Ph.D., indicates the BA4 and BA5 variants have shown sharp increases over the last two months and are now the dominant strains in Oregon; the number of hospitalized patients is expected to peak at 479 on Jul 7; and, the impacts of infection on hospital staffing is likely to continue to be high during the month of July.

In an article on what the monkeypox outbreak portends, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., says he considers it "very unlikely" that current trends will see cases reaching seven figures by September, but stresses it is not possible to determine what figures will look like in the coming weeks due partly to stigma involved in certain transmission routes — many monkeypox cases have occurred in communities of men who have sex with men — making diagnostics more difficult.

Maria Rodriguez, M.D., speaks to Ira Flatow with NPR/Science Friday about how OB/GYNs will be trained in a post-Roe world.

AFSCME rally on OHSU Marquam Hill Campus June 30.

Dale and Julie Burghardt give $5 million to establish a new Food Allergy Center in the OHSU School of Medicine — the first and only food allergy-focused academic health center in the Pacific Northwest.

OHSU's projected operating loss of $58 million for the 2022 fiscal year is mentioned in a Portland Business Journal article on the deterioration of Oregon hospitals' finances in the first quarter.

Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., receives grant to create a Gun Violence Prevention Research Center to step up research on gun deaths and injuries, their causes and strategies for prevention.

Scientists have looked into why and how weight influences emergency contraception, but there are still several unknowns; Alison Edelman, M.D., says, "When contraception was developed, it was really a one-size-fits-all model. But our population now is very different from the population when the drugs were developed — we’ve increased in size — and we are concerned that the most common type of emergency contraception may not work for women with higher BMIs.”