In a story on dropping visits to local emergency departments, OHSU confirms a 30% decline in visits.

Rob Hendrickson, M.D., speaks about an increase in calls to the Oregon Poison Center regarding cleaning supplies. Hendrickson says: “Make sure you don’t take any cleaners and mix them in a can or cup or something that would be mistaken as a beverage. We see people mixing or diluting cleaners and putting them in a soda can or bottle or a cup.”

With support from a $1.6 million gift from the Andrew and Corey Morris-Singer Foundation, OHSU unveils a toll-free hotline, called the Connected Care Center, for people anywhere in the state to seek guidance about symptoms and care for COVID-19 from registered nurses and other clinicians.

A team led by Albert Chi, M.D., M.S.E., designs low-cost ventilators using 3D-printing technology. Chi says, “I wanted to have something we could print everywhere without the need for special equipment or custom manufacturing.”

Erik Mittra, M.D., Ph.D., discusses the role of nuclear medicine in the visualization of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.

Beverly Emerson, Ph.D., is named a 2020 member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

In a story about spinal anesthesia, Michael Aziz, M.D., says such drugs without preservatives “are well-suited for ambulatory surgery.”

Local hospitals, including OHSU and Legacy Health, utilize Oregon Corrections Enterprises' laundry service; the entities work together "through processes designed to protect patients, employees and laundry workers."

George Mejicano, M.D., M.S., describes the experience of the OHSU School of Medicine M.D. Class of 2020 who graduated early in March due to OHSU’s time-variable, competency-based curriculum. “Those students over a four-year period experienced a different way of learning. And more importantly, a different way of progressing with regards to their medical education,” he says.

Susan Gurley, M.D., Ph.D., notes dialysis isn’t a treatment that kidney failure patients can defer during the pandemic.