The Moore Institute’s Nutrition Oregon Campaign and the Southeast Oregon Regional Food Bank handed out emergency food boxes to families in Ontario, Oregon, May 29.

OHSU houses a cloud-based database that allows analyses of COVID-19 patient records from across the U.S.

For a story on informatics medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bill Hersh, M.D., says: “Informatics can be thought of as simply the acquisition, storage and use of information in a specific setting, but it has suffered from an ‘adjective problem’ due to its numerous applications in medicine, nursing, public health and other areas."

Vinay Prasad, M.D., co-authors opinion piece encouraging physician-researchers to study what happens when “medical care downshifts from high to low volume in order to focus on acutely ill patients."

Esther Choo, M.D., co-founder of the movement, #GetUSPPE, is mentioned in a story on PPE shortages and clinician-initiated campaigns to get needed supplies.

Inspired by Nike’s commitment to the community, apparel manufacturer Ma JianRong donates $500,000 to OHSU’s pandemic response.

Matthew Riddle, M.D., publishes a commentary in Diabetes Care that states: “ … Because diabetes is one of the conditions associated with high risk, the diabetes community urgently needs to know more about COVID-19 and its effects on people with diabetes."

KOIN-TV highlights the generosity of Phu Nguyen, a local restaurant owner who supplies meals to health care works at OHSU and other area hospitals.

A new study, led by Maria Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H., says that pharmacist prescribed birth control is associated with higher rates of long-term use, particularly among younger and underinsured women.

Mark Slifka, Ph.D., comments on a Mount Sinai Hospital study that says blood plasma transfusions from recovered patients could improve COVID-19 survival rates.