A new study, led by Jonathan Purnell, M.D., suggests that weight-loss surgery may increase remission of type 2 diabetes in more than 50% of patients who have the procedure. Purnell says: “Our large study confirms the importance of weight loss on inducing diabetes remission, but also finds gastric bypass has benefits independent of weight. If we can understand what these benefits are, it could lead to new diabetes treatments.”

Gov. Kate Brown names Louis Picker, M.D., to the Western States’ Scientific Safety Review Workgroup.

KGW -TV reports on multiple COVID-19 outbreaks at medical facilities across Oregon.

Dawn Nolt, M.D., M.P.H., suggests that in-person education should be considered an essential service, similar to doctors and grocery stores.

A story highlights a wine promotion that benefits Salud, a health outreach program operated by OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center.

Media coverage on the virtual opening of the University of Oregon’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact includes note of the university’s collaboration with OHSU and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute to create a joint center for biomedical data science.

Oregon health care facilities, including OHSU, are facing a shortage of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OHSU’s occupational health department determined the death of an OHSU food and nutrition services employee who had COVID wasn’t work-related.

Judith Guzman-Cottrill, D.O., notes the nation’s supply of personal protective equipment for health care workers continues to be a challenge, saying “some weeks the supply is good, then the next week it can be unreliable.

In an article on pandemic-related delays to cancer screening and treatment, Tom Beer, M.D., says: “You might consider that the pandemic has affected people greatly unequally, and there’s growing evidence that, certainly with regard to economic status, there’s an enormous difference between what’s happening between high- and middle-income individuals who got their jobs back and low-income individuals who have not."