Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D., raises neuroethical issues regarding new device that translates brain activity into speech.

Roger Chou, M.D., and fellow co-authors of national opioid prescribing guidelines clarify that 2016 guidelines were never intended to justify inflexible policies leading to “hard limits and abrupt tapering of drug dosages.”

A panel of experts, including Martin Schreiber, M.D., and Kathleen Carlson, M.S., Ph.D., participate in an Oregon Health Forum discussion regarding the growing impact of gun violence on public health. "Let's not look at our patients as people who might get injured, but as people who might have been at risk five years ago when we started seeing them or maybe experienced trauma in their early lives, may have access to firearms or their children or have to firearms," Carlson says.

Patients and hospitals, including OHSU, have taken legal action to block a new nationwide liver transplant policy, initiated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the United Network for Organ Sharing, that is believed to potentially waste viable livers and lead to fewer necessary transplants.

OHSU and University of Oregon researchers will host “Neuroscience, Ethics & Law in an Era of Big Data,” a collaborative event that will address ethical and legal implications of applied neuroscience.

Primary and secondary endpoints of a phase 3 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of Taltz for the treatment of non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis were met. Clinical investigator Atul Deodhar, M.D., says that the “results offer compelling evidence that Taltz could provide a much-needed new alternative if approved for this patient population."

OHSU and the Unity Center for Behavioral Health are included in a feature article chronicling Oregon’s ongoing mental health care crisis.

The lack of FDA regulation regarding commercially available CBD products. Colin Roberts, M.D., says: “… when we make a statement that something works for a condition, we need data and research to back up that claim. There’s a lot we need to do with cannabis, yet we assume because it’s so widespread there must be something to these claims, otherwise it wouldn’t be in stores.”

Grace Kuo, Ph.D., M.P.H., Pharm.D., has been named the new dean of the OSU/OHSU College of Pharmacy.

Utilizing a scientific technique pioneered by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., researchers from Columbia University have frozen embryos for potential use in future clinical trials.