A report on the conversion of the former Wapato Jail to a homeless shelter and services center, noting that the organization is working on a collaboration with OHSU to add medical services on site.

ABIM Foundation announces winners of its 12th annual John A. Benson Jr., M.D., Professionalism Article Prize, named for the former dean of the OHSU School of Medicine. In peer-reviewed journals, honorees covered being Black in medicine; depression in medical school; the misplaced labeling of health workers as heroes; and, blowing the whistle on misinformation.

Moms news site covers a new study from OHSU about increased rates of suicide among preteen children.

In a story about the benefits and dangers of antidepressants, Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D., comments that an increase in brain serotonin levels by antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, may be unrelated to the root causes of depression.

In a story about guidance for nonurgent surgeries after a patient has recovered from COVID-19, Avital O’Glasser, M.D., says: “The volume of patients coming through our preop clinic, coming through the emergency room or hospital, who need a surgery and have had COVID in the last two months has been astronomical."

A national survey of 507 adults with psoriasis reveals insights into the emotional impacts of the disease and illuminates a need for new topical treatments; Teri Greiling, M.D., Ph.D., says: "Psoriasis in intertriginous areas can be especially challenging for both those living with this condition as well as for their health care providers. People are either unaware or embarrassed about their psoriasis in these areas and shy away from showing or discussing their symptoms during an examination."

Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., is among 33 international scientific leaders elected to the prestigious Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy class of 2022.

About a week after Oregon lifted all mask mandates, Graven says case numbers and hospitalizations remain low, but that does not mean COVID has disappeared.

OHSU's Peter Graven tells KGW-TV that the new subvariant BA.2 isn't capable of generating anywhere near the surges we've seen to date.

For two years, Peter Graven, Ph.D., has helped lead the effort in creating OHSU's COVID-19 forecast for Oregon; he says, "I love hard problems, and this has been the hardest one. So far we're still on the same path. Cases are amongst the lowest we've seen. When [hospitalizations] start ticking up, we don't get to play games with whether we want to wear a mask or not. We will run out of beds."