The Annapurna Express quotes Scott Beadnell, D.P.T., on the use of devises to address body posture. He says, “Overall, the evidence is thin. Generally, we think of those as gimmicks.”

A Discover Magazine article covers how the human brain has unlimited storage capacity, but that doesn’t mean memories are reliable. The story quotes Matthew Lattal, Ph.D., who says, “The brain has basically unlimited memory capacity because of the way the network can be organized.”

NJ.com chronicles infants with the rare disorder infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy and one family’s fight to help find a treatment. Their organization, INADcure Foundation, has partnered with OHSU to create a set of best practices for care.

A story in Healio about rheumatologists navigating infection risk quotes Kevin Winthrop, M.D., M.P.H., who encourages calm in an increasingly politicized world: “There are a lot of dedicated professionals still working in federal agencies that deal with vaccines. We as physicians need to keep reading studies, interpreting data, and asking colleagues at those agencies questions when we have them.”

Head Topics quotes Elisa Boden, M.D., who explains that mouth sores can indicate ulcerative colitis affecting the intestinal tract's entrance or inflammation in another body system.

Proleta Datta speaks with the Brain and Life podcast about driving safety and independence for those with epilepsy. Datta says, “So it is important that we keep our patients safe, but we also allow them to drive safely when they're able to. In fact, most people with epilepsy could drive and may be able to drive, especially if their seizures are well controlled. That's one of my hopes with most of my patients.”

Continued coverage of a powerful new tool developed by OHSU researchers, dubbed OmicsTweezer, that makes it easier to study the mix of cell types in human tissue, which is crucial for understanding diseases such as cancer.

Pharmacy Practice News covers how pharmacists can take a trauma-informed approach to addressing social drivers of health that can help mitigate the chronic adverse outcomes that formative events cause later in life quotes Marie Chisholm-Burns, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., who says, “Safety creates opportunities for survivors to build a sense of control and empowerment.”

The Lund Report covers a grant obtained by the Oregon Office of Rural Health at OHSU to create a mobile integrated health program in Wheeler County. It will include emergency and community health specialists who will visit people in their home, assess their needs and help them with safety, nutrition, medication and chronic disease management, mobility and other issues. Sarah Andersen, M.P.H., says “If we can make it work in Wheeler County, we believe that we can make it work in any rural community in Oregon.”

A study led by Brooke Shafer, Ph.D., found that people recovering from heart failure should consider improving the regularity of their sleep. The research team found that even moderately irregular sleep doubles the risk of having another clinical event within six months.