Foundation Fighting Blindness awards will enable Martha Neuringer, Ph.D., to develop a large animal model for Usher Syndrome and Cristy Ku, M.D., Ph.D., to characterize retinitis pigmentosa biomarkers.

Esther Choo, M.D., will discuss barriers to addressing healthcare equity at the Minnesota Medical Association’s Annual Conference Sept. 26.

OHSU is receiving a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Rural Residency Planning and Development Program.

Gov. Kate Brown’s Vaping Public Health Work Group shares recommendations to address the epidemic of vaping-related illness and youth vaping in Oregon. In an interview with KPTV, group member Brian Druker, M.D., says: “Our hope is that we can make the barrier to entry just a little bit higher … and we’ll see that downward trend again.”

While discussing OHSU’s involvement in a clinical trial evaluating convalescence plasma as a treatment for COVID-19, Bory Kea, M.D., says “There has not been a randomized, controlled trial using this intervention, and that’s why we need to do this study.”

Roger Chou, M.D., says this of an anti-mask document that falsely claims to be from the World Health Organization and is being shared on social media: “It is a lot of cherry-picked evidence and ignores studies looking at filtration effects and diffusion of droplets, as well as ecological studies indicating that masks have been effective.”

A 2019 OHSU study, led by Tatiana Shnitko, Ph.D., is referenced in a story about new research suggesting that action of allowing pre-teens to sip alcohol may increase risks of adverse outcomes.

Researchers from OHSU, the University of Iowa, and University of Kansas are studying the role that nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+, plays in cells and animal tissue infected with coronavirus.

OHSU takes a multi-faceted approach to improve its transgender health services, including creating a transgender community advisory board, tracking rare surgical complications and learning from them to improve future outcomes, and working directly with patients when they have concerns.

In a story about Georgetown University research that found climate change is increasing heat-related deaths in U.S. construction workers, Dede Montgomery, M.S., says “The most important thing to avoid heat stress or exhaustion is to be drinking enough fluids to replace the fluids lost in sweating. Heat stroke is soon to follow if this loss of fluids and exposure to heat is not quickly remedied.”