OHSU has temporarily implemented contingency capacity staffing measures, which can mean some nurses are assigned more patients than usual, due to a high patient census and an increasing number of healthcare staff being out for COVID-19 restrictions. Franny White said in part: “OHSU remains steadfast in our commitment to providing the quality care Oregonians need while also maintaining a safe, supportive work environment for our employees. At the same time that the number of Oregonians who need acute and critical care services continues to outpace available capacity, Portland-area hospital staffing is taxed.”

Eric Herman, M.D., and Jordan Anderson, D.O., discuss long COVID-19 symptoms and therapies. Herman tells the Portland Business Journal it’s important for patients to give themselves “the time and space to recover” and to “seek knowledgeable medical care.”

The Portland Business Journal provides an update on OHSU's financial challenges; Danny Jacobs, M.D., says: “One of the biggest challenges we’re currently addressing is a financial performance that continues to be more constrained. The issues we continue to grapple with are unlike anything I’ve ever encountered. Our expenses continue to far exceed revenues, and now we’re about $100 million off budget."

OHSU contributed to research that found Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders with breast cancer experience significantly worse overall survival rates.

Eric Simpson, M.D., explains how studies of tralokinumab provided some benefits for trial participants with a severe form atopic dermatitis even if those trial results don’t meet the FDA’s approval criteria for atopic dermatitis treatments.

In a submitted essay, Y. Pritham Raj, M.D., describes the mental health benefits of having an exercise routine.

Ben Hoffman, M.D., recommends parents start a conversation about recent mass shootings with their children, and then “really sit back and listen so you can understand their perspectives, their questions, their concerns, their fears.”

Roger Chou, M.D., and others conducted a review of screening for glaucoma in frail elderly patients that found the practice didn’t make a difference in their vision, but was associated with a significantly greater fall risk. As a result, the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force concluded there isn’t enough evidence to indicate the benefits of glaucoma screening elderly patients for glaucoma in a primary care clinic outweigh the potential harms

Nael Aldweib, M.D., commented on a study that showed congenital heart defects may be more common among children of women with heart defects than of men with heart defects: "I think almost all clinicians will be using this data to counsel parents before, during and after pregnancy."

On Measure 110 as a new stream of addiction treatment funding for the state; Todd Korthius, M.D., M.P.H., says a contingency management approach is particularly successful among meth users.