The Associated Press quotes Mark Slifka, Ph.D., and other experts from around the world refuting an unfounded claim related to adenovirus vaccines.

In a Time magazine story about waning immunity following vaccination or natural infection, Mark Helfand, M.D., M.P.H., says: “We can’t really predict how the protection will work for the next variant or over a period of time.”

Local design firms team up with Doernbecher Children's Hospital patients on the "Amino Project," a 3D-printed art collaboration themed around strength and joy.

MedPage Today covers presentation on study of revascularization attempts by Allison Slijepcevic, M.D., and OHSU colleagues.

In a story on methods for reducing opioid prescriptions for patients who underwent lateral neck dissection for thyroid cancer, Jennifer March, M.D., says: “After routine surgery, we were routinely prescribing opioids. A lot of them go unused, subsequently get diverted and misused, and then contribute to [the opioid epidemic]. If we can manage our prescribing power, maybe we can decrease the number of people who get exposed to opioids outside of our power.”

OHSU, along with Oregon State University, is among the top 300 universities worldwide, according to the United Arab Emirates-based Center for World University Rankings.

OHSU is the first in Oregon to offer high-frequency focused ultrasound for treatment of essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease. Ahmed Raslan, M.D., says: “It’s gratifying and humanizing. You see people tearing up, claps and joy. These are not mundane things. Our [first] patient held a glass of sparkling cider for the first time in four years. That was a priceless moment.”

A local design firm teaming up with Doernbecher Children’s Hospital on the “Amino Project,” a 3D-printed art collaboration themed around strength and joy.

Aditi Martin, Ph.D., and Travis Cook, M.S., M.B.A., describe OHSU’s efforts to expand its entrepreneurial partnerships and bring more OHSU inventions into public use. Martin says that coming out of the pandemic, "there is a renewed sense of networking regionally and beyond and getting the work out (into the market)."

In an article on the topic of back pain, Roger Chou, M.D., says medication for chronic back pain “should be an adjunct for older adults, and not the main treatment."