Oregon Health & Science University

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New research from OSHU shows a 90% increase in firearm injuries since 2019

In an email, OHSU promised $7,500 to all staff as a COVID hardship bonus. But the email was fake, and staged by its administrators.

Administrators expect to pay the firm led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder $6.5 million for the investigation.

A team in Portland is putting clues together in an effort to find evidence of the new variant in Oregon.

The drug ivermectin is meant to treat parasitic worms and some skin conditions. The Oregon Poison Center says it's managed nine cases of people intentionally misusing the drug so far this month.

In room after room at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital's COVID-19 intensive care unit, patients are sedated and on life support, many of them much younger than the people sickened by the coronavirus’ earlier waves. As they tend to patients, the nurses, doctors and support staff on duty report feeling the strain.

Scientist have discovered just one case of the unusual COVID-19 variant of concern in Oregon, and don't yet know the implications of it. But it’s part of a global story of viral evolution — and our response to it — that could determine if we eradicate COVID-19 for good, or will it be something, like the flu, we live with, and die from, every year.

Fred Harwin is an “ocularist” — he makes prosthetic eyeballs, hand-painting each one so it perfectly matches the patient’s other eye.

Dr. Esther Choo remembers the first time she dealt with a critically ill patient who rejected care from a physician of color.