Kim Hutchison, M.D., explains how losing an hour of sleep when we move our clocks back an hour for daylight saving time affects our sleep, and provides tips on preparing for the change.

A workshop led by OHSU Cascades East Family Medicine resident Derek Wiseman, M.D., provided Oregon Tech students with hands-on training and guidance in the art of suturing. Wiseman says, “It’s an easy, fun workshop that I would have appreciated as a student. It will hopefully excite students about the long, hard journey into medicine”

After two years of weekly forecasting, Graven transitions to every-other-week updates: "It’s fair to say the omicron surge is behind us, though COVID is not. The risk right now is quite low for most healthy people in Oregon. And we need to remember that COVID-19 will continue to present a threat to people who are immunocompromised, older adults and those with underlying health conditions.”

An OHSU patient who is immunocompromised and a cancer survivor shares his perspective on the end of mask mandates.

In a story about the design of the OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s new Elks Children’s Eye Clinic building, which was built to serve eye patients who have low vision as well as those who are young or elderly, David Wilson, M.D., describes how the building uses larger signage, contrasting colors and some areas with dim lighting to better meet those patients’ needs.

The Oregon Poison Center warns the public that pills meant to mimic oxycodone tablets may contain illicitly manufactured fentanyl or other harmful contaminants.

Peter Graven, Ph.D.: “We need to remember that COVID-19 will continue to present a threat to people who are immunocompromised, older adults, and those with underlying health conditions. The current forecast is lower than last week’s."

Bill Messer, M.D., Ph.D., explains super immunity, and he begins with a refresher on what vaccines do: “Vaccines enable us to develop antibodies and immune cells that remember the virus if we’re exposed to it. The immune system takes lessons from the vaccine, applies those lessons to dealing with the infection, then acquires additional knowledge from the breakthrough infection. The combination gives our immune system a greater capacity to recognize the viruses that cause COVID-19, apart from what it learns from one or the other mode in isolation.”

The 33rd annual Oregon Cancer Ski-Out at Mount Hood Meadows benefits OHSU's War on Melanoma research.

Article talks about reported workplace culture issues, discrimination at OHSU's Richmond Clinic.