In an interview, Columbia Memorial Hospital CEO Erik Thorsen highlights the Astoria hospital’s collaboration with OHSU. He says, “The primary goal of this collaboration with OHSU is to build access locally so patients do not have to travel 90-plus miles to a larger facility.”

The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is mentioned as an example of a local research hub contributing to Oregon’s biotechnology and life science sector being “wealthier and more productive than at any previous point in the last 20 years.”

Ben Hoffman, M.D., warns parents to exercise caution when their kids cool off in searing summer heat. He says, “Drowning is the leading cause of death for ages 1 to 4.”

Reports on contract negotiations at Hillsboro Medical Center.

LiveScience references OHSU research from 2007 in a story that explains why people shiver when they’re cold.

Dan Hartung, Pharm.D., M.P.H., and Rebecca Spain, M.D., are among members of a new state board set up to address high prescription drug costs in Oregon.

The OHSU board of directors adopted an operating budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 that exactly matches expenses against expected revenues, in contrast to previous years when operating margins were reinvested into the university’s health care, research and education missions.

Oregon will begin licensing training centers for psilocybin therapists.

A story exploring how a nonhuman primate shortage affects scientific research for numerous human diseases notes OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center provided the NIH with 100 animals for COVID-19 research, but that move delayed other research that was previously scheduled for the Oregon center. Nancy Haigwood, Ph.D., says: “We have demands for monkeys, and we had planned carefully, exactly what we would do … . Those are 100 monkeys that we’d love to have right now."

The OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s Outreach Program provided free eye exams during a June 10 visit in Harney County, Oregon.