David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., earns an NIH grant to study functional and structural optical coherence tomography for glaucoma.

Andrew Adey, Ph.D., describes a new method to quickly map cells that could lead to new cancer drug targets.

Continued coverage of the West Coast’s record-shattering heat wave quotes Mary Tanski, M.D., Brandon Maughan, M.D., Bory Kea, M.D., David Jones, M.D., and Matthew Hansen, M.D. Kea says: “Overall this is stressful to our system. We are not finished with the pandemic yet.”

In a trial of the drug upadacitinib, Atul Deodhar, M.D., and colleagues found it improved symptoms of patients with the inflammatory spine disease ankylosing spondylitis by 40%.

OHSU and Columbia Memorial Hospital have formed CMH-OHSU Health, and 28 providers based in Astoria, Warrenton and Seaside are now OHSU employees. John Hunter, M.D., says: “Residents of the North Coast community rely on CMH for essential health care, and we look forward to working more closely to meet those needs and collaborate through the research and education missions of our academic health center.”

An OHSU heart transplant patient has befriended the family of his young donor.

Kristine M. Alpi, AHIP, FMLA, has been elected the 2021-2021 president of the Medical Library Association.

OHSU is collaborating with Weill Cornell Medicine and Michigan State University to create an artificial intelligence smart phone app to assess whether a follow-up medical diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease is recommended.

Tyler Cox, R.N., who was injured while serving as a medic during racial justice protests on Aug. 31, files a lawsuit in federal court against the Portland Police Bureau.

In an op-ed, Aaron Bholé, M.D., argues it’s time to re-evaluate how American medical education is done, including making the fourth year of M.D. programs more meaningful with research projects, community engagement programs and novel elective rotations: “A more meaningful fourth year of medical training could produce a generation of physicians who can tackle the structural issues of the health care system and help address health care inequities."