In a story by MedCentral highlighting the transformation of critical cardiac care over the years, Srini Mukundan, M.D., says, “We should expect continued innovation within the fields of interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, advanced heart failure, cardiac imaging, structural heart disease, and cardiac surgery. As these fields evolve to offer novel treatments and therapies, critical care cardiology will adapt as well, providing responsive patient-centered care to an increasingly complex patient population.”

In media coverage of a Multnomah County Health Department report about the rise of dysentery cases in the area, John Townes, M.D., says, “If you want to stop an outbreak of shigella, you give people toilets and soap and water. And you train them in how to wash their hands."

The Daily Emerald, student newspaper at the University of Oregon, covers a multi-state effort to defend federal gun laws. Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., director of the OHSU Gun Violence Prevention Research Center, says, “The more prevention mechanisms we have in place, the fewer deaths we see. Science supports that.”

Continued media coverage of a team of OHSU researchers led by Jared Fischer, Ph.D., and Jose Montoya Mira, Ph.D., who developed a new blood test that identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy.

Continued media coverage of a team of OHSU researchers led by Jared Fischer, Ph.D., and Jose Montoya Mira, Ph.D., who developed a new blood test that identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy.

In a guest opinion column, Joanna Harper, Ph.D., and Paula Amato, M.D., write, “There is no evidence that inclusion of trans athletes has had a negative impact on sport participation of cisgender women and girls. However, the discrimination experienced by trans youths contributes to lower sports participation rates compared to their cisgender peers.” They suggest steps that communities could take to increase sports participation rates for all youths, regardless of gender identity.

Coverage of stop-work orders from the federal government for research projects in Oregon notes that for researchers who haven’t received such orders, losing funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health would have devastating financial impacts. Lillian Raley, M.S., says, “We haven’t seen a lot of manifestations yet of what’s to come. There’s just been a lot of anxiety about trying to extrapolate out where your funding source comes from and if it’s cut, can we find other ways of supporting it? There’s not a lot of answers right now, just a lot of anxiety."

Coverage of stop-work orders from the federal government for research projects in Oregon notes that for researchers who haven’t received such orders, losing funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health would have devastating financial impacts. Lillian Raley, M.S., says, “We haven’t seen a lot of manifestations yet of what’s to come. There’s just been a lot of anxiety about trying to extrapolate out where your funding source comes from and if it’s cut, can we find other ways of supporting it? There’s not a lot of answers right now, just a lot of anxiety."

Adventist Health Columbia Gorge and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute have signed an agreement to provide collaborative cancer care at Celilo Cancer Center in The Dalles, Oregon. “The Knight Cancer Institute’s vision to eliminate the burden of cancer includes a commitment to team-based approaches for providing individualized care. We welcome opportunities to make it easier for more Oregonians to access the care they need most in their community,” says Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D.

ADDitude covers a study that finds cognitive-aerobic exercise improves working memory more than aerobic exercise alone in children and adolescents with ADHD. Joel Nigg, Ph.D., says, “For developing children, aerobic exercise expands the growth of brain connections, the frontal cortex, and the brain chemicals (such as serotonin and dopamine) that support self-regulation and executive functioning. These surprisingly specific findings in typically developing children have led to excitement about the possibility that the right kind of exercise can help ADHD.”