Jason Hedges, M.D., gives practical tips for prostate health in an article about benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) . The article notes that as many as four out of five men 70 and older develop symptoms of BPH. “It’s a very common problem,” Hedges says.

An OHSU study is named in a Q&A on whether to get vaccinated, noting that researchers found that immunity from both vaccines and an infection was strongest.

In his first forecast in March, Peter Graven, Ph.D., notes that the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Oregon will continue a sharp descent as the coronavirus finds an ever-dwindling pool of susceptible people: “There aren’t enough susceptible people in Oregon right now to generate another surge in hospitalizations."

The OHSU Center for Women's Health is named in an article about the benefits of Pilates.

The Oregon Legislature approves a $45 million prioritized investment for OHSU's 30-30-30 plan to help address the state’s urgent health care workforce needs. The funding is the largest appropriation made to an individual higher education institution this legislative session. Danny Jacobs, M.D., says: "Funding OHSU’s 30-30-30 will allow us to train health care providers who better represent the racial and ethnic diversity of Oregonians, and who are prepared to provide high-quality, culturally competent care."

A $10,000 grant from the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Community Partnership Program will fund the purchase of 10 air quality monitors that will be installed at orchard sites across Wasco and Hood River counties.

In an article on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Karin Rondland, Ph.D., discusses how the technology could revolutionize the identification of new biomarkers to aid in early cancer detection and the mechanisms driving disease.

OHSU is named in a story about the Oregon Legislature appropriating $5 million in grant funding to community-based violence intervention programs, including Healing Hurt People -- a program that will launch at OHSU soon.

OHSU is named in a Scientific American article examining the end of COVID regulations in schools. "[Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco] has been part of informal group of nine epidemiologists — at U.C.S.F., the University of Washington and Oregon Health & Science University — who have come up with their own metrics. This group’s proposed formula departs from the CDC’s mainly in that it explicitly includes vaccination rates and does not take into account case counts at all."