Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish marks two years as a cancer survivor, participates in a discussion at the Asian Health & Service Center, which received funding from the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Community Partnership Program for a new cancer resource center.

In an OPB-Radio story about adolescent use of banned vaping products, Sarah Feldstein Ewing, Ph.D., suggests parents take an open and honest approach: “It might be the case that your child doesn’t immediately desist, but they do have a chance of knowing that you are a person they can talk to about it.”

The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health hosts Transgender Health Symposium with presentations on research conducted in Portland and around the nation, health policy, and transgender-inclusive health care.

Vinay Prasad, M.D., is critical of a colorectal cancer study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Kerri Winters-Stone, Ph.D., is among a group of American College of Sports Medicine experts to provide detailed guidance on how exercise can be prescribed like medicine for people living with and beyond cancer.

Proceeds from the sale of Dutch Bros’ “Be Aware” breast cancer awareness mugs will benefit the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and Albie Aware.

Spirit of Halloween stores sponsor Halloween party for children receiving care at Doernbecher.

In a story about OHSU research published in July that reveals a short bout of exercise enhances brain function in mice, Gary Westbrook, M.D., says, “The changes we saw would be the equivalent of going to the gym for an hour. This means you don’t have to be a marathoner or work out a ton to get the benefits.”

Steven Mansoor, Ph.D., and Alanna McCarthy fully visualize for the first time the P2X7 protein receptor, which is associated with many diseases.

OHSU neurosurgeons Seunggu Jude Han, M.D., and Ahmed Raslan, M.D., are quoted in a Portland Business Journal story about keeping patients awake during brain surgery to map cognitive functions such as language before removing tumors or seizure focus areas. “We have to walk a fine line,” Raslan says. “We need instant feedback continuously. There’s some function you can’t test when the patient is asleep.”