"Having a daughter with a rare disease changes your perspective." Justin Porcano and his wife, Rosalyn, founded Save Sight Now to advocate for research to advance scientific understanding and ultimately develop therapies for kids like his daughter with Usher’s syndrome, a hereditary condition that leads to progressive loss of hearing and eyesight. The family has raised support for the Oregon National Primate Research Center's leading-edge research to develop gene therapies in a nonhuman primate model that closely mimics how the disease affects people. (fb)

A new way to treat prostate cancer. OHSU became the first hospital in Oregon to offer a new option for treatment, using a robotic-assisted ultrasound device that destroys the cancerous tissue while minimizing side effects. Led by Dr. Sudhir Isharwal, it’s the only site between Seattle and Northern California where the treatment is available: (fb)