OHSU in the news

How the state is missing chances to find deadly birth defect’s cause

The Seattle Times October 24, 2018
Diane Stadler, Ph.D., R.D.N., L.N., urges corn masa manufacturers to fortify the diet staple with folic acid; she says: “There’s a reason salt is iodized. It is because our food system and our lifestyle don’t allow all members of society to consume sufficient amounts of these micronutrients.”

24 hours in America

The New York Times October 24, 2018
OHSU patient Molly Palmer acknowledges her experience with the OHSU transgender health program in a story about her work with the nonprofit Trans Lifeline, a transgender telephone hotline.

The Health Care 50

Time October 24, 2018
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., is named to Time magazine’s list of fifty people who are transforming health care in 2018.

New target of alcohol in the brain identified

Neuroscience News October 24, 2018
Antonia Savarese, Ph.D., is a co-author on a Neuropharmacology paper that identified the brain’s KCNK13 potassium channel as being a target for alcohol that enables the brain to release dopamine.

A rare disease: Acromegaly

The World October 24, 2018
Patient of Maria Fleseriu, M.D., and Justin Cetas, M.D., Ph.D., wrote about her own successful treatment of a brain tumor related to acromegaly.
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