After a study raised questions about the identification and treatment of rare pituitary adenomas, Maria Fleseriu, M.D., and colleagues determine individualized management should remain the standard of care.

In an article that outlines Oregon’s “31 most-prevalent communicable diseases,” Dawn Nolt, M.D., says: The measles vaccine is 97 percent effective, but pertussis less so."

Danny Jacobs, M.D., and Renee Edwards, M.D., provide update on the Heart Transplant Program reactivation.

Christina Milano, M.D. speaks with KATU-TV about gender identity and transgender health. She says, “as we become a gender-affirming society, it will be ok to say ‘I’m pretty sure I was born in the wrong body.’”

In response to a Nature commentary calling for world governments to adopt a moratorium on “heritable genome editing,” Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., says: experts in human reproduction and clinical genetics should be weighing in on these regulations because they’re the ones actually researching human germline editing.

In an article about ocular disorders and rheumatic disease, James T. Rosenbaum, M.D. says, “A knowledge of these relationships and their implications can improve the care of both the eye and the joint disease.”

Maria Rodriguez, M.D., provides insight about choosing the “right” at-home pregnancy test. She says, despite various product designs and price-points, “the main thing to know is that all pregnancy test essentially work in the same way.”

Matt Noble, M.D., discusses the health impacts of pediatric pot ingestion, as well as safe storage processes for marijuana edibles.

Paula Amato, M.D., and a patient speak about Senate Bill 911 which would require Oregon insurers to cover the cost of fertility preservation when a patient needs to undergo medical treatment that may risk or cause infertility.

Joyce Hollander-Rodriguez, M.D., says that, in collaboration with OHSU educational efforts, the Sky Lakes Collaborative Health Center could help to address rural health care challenges, including physician shortages.