Philip Copenhaver, Ph.D., shares his experience with hazardous smoke in Portland during 2020 wildfires, adding lab staff who weren’t involved in animal care stayed home and that no research was done during that time.

Roger Dale Walker, M.D., notes Native Americans have disproportionately higher rates of several health conditions such as tuberculosis, diabetes and depression.

The Kiwanis Club of Hermiston is selling Christmas trees to benefit OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and other organizations.

Ted Braun, M.D., Ph.D., describes a new study regarding patient-reported outcomes in a clinical trial studying chronic myeloid leukemia patients who remained in treatment-free remission after tyrosine kinase inhibition treatment discontinuation. He says: “This is the first study to demonstrate patient-reported outcomes after TKI discontinuation and demonstrates that patients do indeed have improved quality of life after discontinuation."

OHSU collaborates with GE Healthcare to advance health technology.

Esther Choo, M.D., is an organizer of a nonprofit called Osler’s Alliance, which aims to reverse the erosion of the physician-patient relationship.

Robert Duehmig describes the Oregon Office of Rural Health’s 2020 Oregon Rural Health Hero of the Year, Orion Falvey, who co-founded Orchid Health clinic.

In a story about gene therapy advances, Mark Pennesi, M.D., Ph.D., describes how OHSU was the first to use CRISPR technology to edit the genes in a human being in early 2020, saying “We’re going in and using CRISPR to take out the mutation that has created a stop sign for the production of the protein.”

OHSU physician assistants and physician assistant students share what they’re grateful for this Thanksgiving during the pandemic. Lillian Navarro-Reynolds, P.A., says "I'm thankful to all the people who keep going to work, to all the people who stock the grocery stores and keep gas stations going… (doing) all of the things that we need in order to do all the things that we do."

OHSU COVID testing has increased 41% between October and November, and waits to be tested are often hours long.