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Pfizer vaccine available for children

Seaside Signal June 30, 2022
Columbia Memorial Hospital-OHSU Health Pediatric Clinic in Astoria hosts Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination event July 14 for children younger than 5.

How to Cultivate Diversity and Equity

Oregon Business June 29, 2022
An op-ed co-written by Aditi Martin, Ph.D., encourages business leaders to cultivate diversity and equity in order to bolster innovation by taking steps such as creating room for conversation among employees, implementing mentorship programs, openly embracing failure and measuring success.

Roundtable discussion warns of deadly fentanyl surge for kids, teens

KATU-TV June 29, 2022
OHSU hosts a roundtable discussion with addiction medicine experts, raising alarm about the surge of illicit fentanyl in counterfeit pills. Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin, cheaper and readily available, including to young people.

How Covid virus uses body’s fat cells to replicate

The Statesman Journal June 28, 2022
The virus that causes COVID-19 undertakes a massive takeover of the body’s fat-processing system, creating cellular storehouses of fat that empower the virus to hijack the body’s molecular machinery and cause disease, according to new research led by Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., at OHSU and Jennifer Kyle, Ph.D., at PNNL.

COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover

Science Magazine June 28, 2022
New research from OHSU and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reveal the SARS-CoV-2 virus takes over the body’s fat-processing system, creating cellular storehouses of fat that empower the virus to hijack the body’s molecular machinery and cause disease.
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