A study led by Aryan Sarparast, M.D., finds a lack of scientific research describing the interactions between widely used psychiatric medications and psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA.

MD/PhD candidate Peter Cruz-Gordillo matched into a neurosurgery residency at OHSU.

OHSU medical students learn March 18where they'll be spending their residency.

A study in Science Robotics led by Prokopios Antonellis, Ph.D., shows an assistive robotic waist tether that pulls from its wearer's center of mass to help reduce energy consumption from movement can reduce people's metabolic rates by up to 48% as they walk.

Willie Mae Hart, one of the first Black nursing students at OHSU, passes away.

A study led by Eric Simpson, M.D., finds more than 80% of patients with severe atopic dermatitis experienced significant improvement after treatment with upadacitinib compared with placebo.

Some individuals take issue with a patient handout provided by the Doernbecher Gender Clinic.

OHSU is partnering with a local nonprofit, Healing Hurt People, to break the cycle of violence affecting many people of color in Portland; Roy Moore and other program coordinators will be on call to respond to OHSU Hospital after victims of violence arrive to defuse tensions and serve as a liaison with medical staff: “Eighty percent of the time when we come in, we already know the people."

After two teenagers tragically die from fentanyl overdoses, Olivia Wright, M.D., says that adolescent brains aren’t fully formed around assessing risk and reward, so teenagers are disposed to experiment, and everyone is in danger when it comes to fetanyl, regardless of whether they are addicted or a first-time user: “It’s a poison that’s mixed with drugs. They may think they’re taking something that ‘oh yeah, everybody takes’ or that it’s not a big deal or they tried that in the past. You really don’t know what you’re getting’.

More than $10 million in federal funding will go to a number of Oregon projects, including OHSU Northwest Native American Center of Excellence health workforce initiative.