Once again the news was outstanding for the OHSU School of Medicine when U.S. News & World Report released its annual survey of "America's Best Graduate Schools 2012 Edition." The OHSU Family Medicine program was ranked second in the nation. Each ...

A KGW News article reports that “The FDA could soon be cracking down on mail-order genetic tests -- including those that claim they can find out which sport your child will excel at by testing his or her DNA.” The question of whether genetic testing ...

A recent Wall Street Journal article titled, “New efforts to simplify end-of-life care wishes,” explains how a growing number of states are promoting the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) program to help guide physicians with a ...

A maternal high fat diet is associated with decreased plasma omega–3 fatty acids and increased cell death in the livers of fetal nonhuman primates This month's featured paper is from PloS ONE, and is titled “Maternal high fat diet is associated with ...

The Colson Family Foundation and Norman and Linda Brenden partnered to establish a $2.5 million endowed chair in pancreatic disease research to be named for William E. Colson. The William E. Colson Chair for Pancreatic Disease Research has been ...

Imagine having no idea where your job will take you for the next three to six years. Sound exciting? It is for many Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine students as Match Day quickly approaches. On Thursday March 17, 107 fourth-year ...

WHAT: Donna Shalala, Ph.D., current University of Miami president and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will lead a panel discussion at Oregon Health & Science University about the future of nursing. The group will discuss a recent ...

According to an article published in a recent edition of the Orlando Sentinel, “Without screening, 3.5 out of every 1,000 women ages 40 to 49 will die of breast cancer in the next 10 years; regular mammography can reduce that number to 3.” However, ...

Martin Schreiber, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, received a research grant worth nearly $700,000 from the National Trauma Institute (NTI) to study a method that could more accurately determine how much blood-clot prevention medication to give ...

In a study scheduled for publication in the April issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, asked post-menopausal breast cancer survivors ...