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.

A story by the American Heart Association on Matthew Kampfe, Brain Rehab Network president, being appointed to lead the annual Heart and Stroke Walk quotes Anthony Mulholland, M.N., R.N., who says: “The Heart and Stroke Walk gives Portland and Vancouver residents and employees an extraordinary opportunity to address a critical issue in our community.”

Continued coverage of Phil and Penny Knight’s record-breaking $2 billion gift, the largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university or academic medical center, to transform the future of cancer care.

Hans India covers a presentation by Sanjay Malhotra, Ph.D., who says cancer care poses a significant economic burden on countries.

A small, preliminary study links marathon running and increased colon cancer risk. David Lieberman, M.D., says the study is provocative and calls for more research: “It tells us there’s a signal here. We wouldn’t have expected these rates of high-risk adenomas, which are cancer precursor lesions, in an age group like this.”

The New York Times covers new research revealing a correlation between marathon and ultramarathon running and the presence of polyps and advanced adenomas. David Lieberman, M.D., says, “It tells us there’s a signal here. We wouldn’t have expected these rates of high-risk adenomas, which are cancer precursor lesions, in an age group like this.”

A National Geographic story exploring how human hibernation could revolutionize medicine and get us to Mars highlights the discovery of a “torpor switch” in non-hibernating animals confirmed in a January publication by Domenico Tupone, Ph.D., Shaun Morrison, Ph.D., and colleagues. Tupone says, “It is like you have all the cables inside your walls to turn on a light but lost the ability to trigger the switch. We think humans have all the circuitry to induce torpor and now we are a step forward into the path to reactivate the switch.”

An OHSU study led by Maria Rodriguez, M.D., reveals access to contraception has dramatically improved among women who previously would have used no birth control at all, following a decision two years ago by the FDA to allow access to an over-the-counter birth control pill for the first time in the U.S.

An OHSU study led by Maria Rodriguez, M.D., reveals access to contraception has dramatically improved among women who previously would have used no birth control at all, following a decision two years ago by the FDA to allow access to an over-the-counter birth control pill for the first time in the U.S.

A new OHSU study led by Maria Rodriguez, M.D., reveals access to contraception has dramatically improved among women who previously would have used no birth control at all, following a decision two years ago by the FDA to allow access to an over-the-counter birth control pill for the first time in the U.S.; Rodriguez says, “This is one of the first studies to show that over-the-counter birth control pills are reaching the very people they’re meant to help — those who face the greatest barriers to care.”