A breast cancer research project led by Lisa Coussens, Ph.D., is one of 48 being granted a total of $21.7 million for the Susan G. Komen foundation.

Susan Hedlund, M.S.W., is a panelist in an OPB Think Out Loud special broadcast on how people who are caring for loved ones at home are coping. Hedlund says: “We know that for family caregivers there are higher levels of depression, higher levels of anxiety, and difficulty getting help because accessing mental health care can be hard when someone is providing care.”

Oregon Capital Chronicle reports on audit of health insurers that finds many aren’t following state regulations to provide free coverage for reproductive health care. Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, M.D., says, “It’s incredibly disappointing and incredibly unsurprising.”

A study led by Michael Heinrich, M.D., found the drug ripretinib did not provide significant improvement for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor, or GIST, who had previously been treated with another drug, imatinib.

While describing her research, which found an 8-week yoga and Pilates program reduced incontinence episodes for participating patients, Megan Cramer, M.D., says: “Many women with stress urinary incontinence would like nonsurgical options. … There is some literature that shows that yoga and Pilates can be helpful for urinary incontinence, but more robust studies are needed."

In a Cancer Today story on the annual AACR Cancer Disparities annual progress report, Coussens says: “The AACR is extremely concerned that racial and ethnic minorities continue to be underrepresented in cancer research and in clinical trials, especially because people of different ages, races and ethnicities may respond differently to cancer therapies.”

In a story about scientist’s concerns that the monkeypox virus could become more common if it’s able to infect a new species, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., recalls how an infected pet prairie dog led to the 2003 monkeypox outbreak in Wisconsin.

In coverage of Oregon’s and OHSU’s rollout of the first vaccines for children younger than 5, Eliza Hayes Bakken, M.D., says: "I'm just so thrilled for families with children in this age group. The last few months have been pretty harrowing.”

Joe Gray, Ph.D., co-authors a STAT News op-ed calling for a “revitalized” national research program to better understand the effects of low-dose radiation on human health; he says: “A federally-coordinated program will provide valuable information and reveal whether current regulations and protections are adequate to keep Americans safe from the effects of low-dose radiation. Now is the time to revitalize this research.”

Christopher Blazes, M.D., is interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange, which airs on NPR stations in southern Oregon and northern California, regarding a newly defined term for some patients on long-term prescriptions for a class of sedatives knowns as benzodiazepines.