Martha Neuringer, Ph.D., John Brigande, Ph.D., and colleagues have developed the first nonhuman primate model for Usher syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes deafness and blindness. Brigande says: “This model’s creation is truly a momentous scientific achievement. It should be shouted from Everest”

David Jacoby, M.D., is highlighted in a subsequent feature as a leader of one of the top primary care schools.

In a story about how teaching hospitals are responding to nursing shortages, Christine Bartlett, M.S.N., RN, says: “It’s taken the pandemic -- a huge health care crisis -- to look at how we can move nursing to the next level. We know doing it the same old way isn’t going to work anymore”

Dollar For report cites OHSU as an exception among Oregon hospitals that are not meaningfully screening patients for their eligibility for financial assistance, noting that OHSU “has proven that if hospitals take their burden to screen patients seriously they can increase financial assistance without affecting profitability”

An OHSU health care team is trying a different approach to caring for patients who have, or are at risk for, Hepatitis C, with a goal of overcoming barriers that can otherwise make receiving testing and treatment seem impossible. An organizer of the pilot project, Jane Babiarz, M.D., says: “A number of patients have become tearful when we’re discussing treatment. Patients have said, ‘I never thought I was going to get treated for Hepatitis C. No one has ever treated me like a person before or acted like this matters’”

OHSU researchers contributed to a study in mice and human cells that found the number of specialized immune cells available for fighting skin cancer doubled when a new treatment blocked their escape from melanoma tumors - distributed via Cision and Yahoo.

In a MedPage Today story on evaluating and treating children with Long COVID, Louise Vaz, M.D., recommends starting with a thorough history and physical to characterize children's symptoms and "functional activity limitations."

In a MedPage Today story on evaluating and treating children with Long COVID, Louise Vaz, M.D., recommends starting with a thorough history and physical to characterize children's symptoms and "functional activity limitations."

OHSU researchers identify a pill used to treat a common skin disease as an “incredibly promising” treatment for alcohol use disorder, with people who received the medication, called apremilast, reducing their alcohol intake by more than half — from five drinks per day to two.

Research led by Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., on the mechanism of hearing, is a contestant in the annual “STAT Madness” contest, a bracket-style competition in biomedical research.