OHSU Doernbecher and Nike announce the 2019 Doernbecher Freestyle patient-designers who will design Nike shoes and apparel which will be auctioned, sold to benefit the hospital.

In a Medscape article on the topic of sharing a patient’s diagnosis, Jennifer Lycette, M.D., says the first step is taking the temperature of the room and assessing what a patient really wants to hear.

A hydrogen peroxide-based vaccine developed by OHSU scientists and being tested in a clinical trial is described as a potential treatment option for West Nile Virus infection in a story about virus-linked deaths in Arizona.

Washington County sheriff’s deputies receiving treatment for gunshot wounds at OHSU.

As Oregon’s only Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, OHSU Doernbecher will benefit from proceeds raised during the Credit Union for Kids Northwest Classic.

Ben Hoffman, M.D., is featured in a CBS This Morning segment about the dangers of inclined infant sleepers: “This is a fundamentally dangerous product that shouldn't be on the market.”

Patient with cancer publishes a letter to the editor in the Wahkiakum County Eagle praising the CMH-OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative in Astoria: “We are so fortunate to have the new center available to everyone in the Lower Columbia region.”

In an article that looks at whether marijuana-based products improve MS symptoms, Vijayshree Yadav, M.D., says: “It’s one thing for clinical studies to evaluate a standardized marijuana medicine, but evaluating marijuana when a patient smokes or eats it is another story, because marijuana varies so widely from sample to sample. Concentrations of its active ingredients differ, and so researchers can’t accurately compare its effects.”

Amy Garcia, M.D. and Sanjay Krishnaswami, M.D., author an op-ed in STAT News about the dangers of high-powered rare-earth magnet toys.

A team led by Luiz Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D., engineers a material that replicates human bone tissue with an unprecedented level of precision to explore the origin of metastatic tumors in bone, treatment for bone injuries.