A team of OHSU nurses who help the unhoused, called Street Nurses, facilitated a discussion about trauma-informed care at a new volunteer orientation for Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and Southern Oregon Housing for All in Ashland.

Ana Wilson, Ph.D., will participate in an ADDitude webinar on the prevalence and causes of chronic pain among neurodivergent youth Sept. 9, 2025.

OHSU is among 158 hospitals nationwide to be receive the American Heart Association's new “Commitment to Quality” award.

Joel Nigg, Ph.D., is cited in a Medscape commentary about the increase in ADHD diagnoses among children, titled “ADHD: Not a Diagnosis but a Warning Label”; he says for a large percentage of individuals diagnosed with ADHD, “there is nothing neurobiologically notable about them. Instead, their symptoms are situational or conditional.”

In response to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show the U.S. fertility rate -- the overall number of children being born per individual -- dropped to the lowest level on record last year, Paula Amato, M.D. says, “As women get older, their fertility rates, their ability to get pregnant decreases. So, if you start later, you may have fewer children even if you wanted to have a bigger family.” She added that insurance mandates to cover treatment for infertility -- people who have a hard time conceiving a child -- likely have only a limited effect on the overall fertility rate: "I think just on principle, [insurance coverage for infertility] should happen. But whether or not it would affect the fertility rate — it would probably affect the fertility rate a little bit, but it's probably not the main driver of decreasing fertility rates."

Continued coverage of Suvi Neukam M.D.'s interview with AARP News on the importance of maintaining meaningful social connections as we age.

KGW-TV reports Gov. Kotek signed five bills the week of Aug. 4aimed at supporting the state’s behavioral health crisis, including HB 3321, which involves a commission in collaboration with OHSU tasked with education and technical assistance to youth substance-use disorder providers and early intervention services. Around $1 million is being invested in this effort.

KGW-TV mentions OHSU’s research involving mRNA in a story about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cutting $500 million in funding for mRNA research.

In a Deseret News article about University of Utah research that suggests the genetic tool kit that enables animals like bears to survive hibernation could also exist in humans, Domenico Tupone, Ph.D., discusses an OHSU study that identified a brain-based mechanism called thermoregulatory inversion, a process that allows animals to lower their core body temperature without triggering the usual warming responses like shivering or burning a specific type of fat in the body; he says: “The idea is to reduce the body temperature to a lower level so that tissues like the brain or heart don’t need as much oxygen. That could improve outcomes from strokes or heart attacks. If we had a mechanism that allows us to transform humans into hibernating animals, we could achieve and control therapeutic hypothermia much better.”

NPR interviews Paula Amato, M.D., and others about “genetically engineered humans” after eight healthy babies were born in the U.K. using genetic material from three people; she says, “NIH doesn't typically support human embryo research, so if the technology bros are interested, that would be welcome in the field.”