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Healing generational trauma

Yes! Magazine February 16, 2022
Allie Dyer advocates for socio-structural changes to medicine in order to better serve Black and Native American communities, saying she believes the medical community needs to “radically reformulate the theoretical paradigms within allopathic medicine to reflect the reality of our patients and the communities they are part of."

College COVID-19 restrictions no longer make sense

Credit Union Times February 16, 2022
Leslie Bienen, M.F.A., D.V.M., argues “with many college campuses approaching 98% vaccination rates among students, faculty, and staff, universities should jettison the strategies they relied on in 2020 and 2021,” such as remote learning and mask requirements.

Targeting TGF-β for treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta

Baylor College of Medicine February 15, 2022
OHSU was involved in a Phase 1 clinical trial investigating transforming growth factor beta’s effect on osteogenesis imperfecta, a common skeletal dysplasia that causes bone fragility for which there is no FDA-approved treatment.

How healthcare organizations can centralize their care delivery

HealthTech February 15, 2022
Hospitals are using technology to improve care delivery. Matthias Merkel, M.D., Ph.D., describes how OHSU’s use of deep-learning technology used in its Mission Control command center has improved operations: “Before, we were figuring out how many patients we had and how many we anticipated moving forward by writing on pieces of paper and whiteboard.”

As COVID-19 cases drop across the country, mandates are loosened

NPR's Science Friday February 14, 2022
Mask mandates are loosening across the country, but dropping the requirement for masks in schools is controversial; Judy Guzman-Cottrill, D.O., tells NPR: "We know that kids are very good at sharing infectious diseases in the school setting. So we need to see higher immunization rates in kids before we start removing masks."
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