A new marketing campaign led by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems is designed to raise public awareness that hospitals are ready for elective surgeries.
In a story regarding elevated anxieties during stressful times, Bita Moghaddam., Ph.D., says: “If you think about going to the grocery store right now, there's a fair amount of planning consciously or subconsciously — what times will be less crowded, do I really need to go, and should I go. Most of us didn't think of going to a grocery store as a dangerous thing before, yet now it has become an anxiety-provoking process.”
A profile of health care company GRAIL Inc., includes mention of OHSU’s participation in the PATHFINDER study, the company’s large-scale interventional study for cancer early detection.
Fitbit consulted with OHSU emergency medicine clinicians caring for COVID-19 patients to help inform their design of an emergency ventilator to help save lives during the pandemic.
Research by Luke Masha, M.D., and colleagues finds patients who undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement are more likely to die a month afterward if they also have cardiogenic shock.