Natasha Fewkes, a second-year medical student, won first prize in a local student competition of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and was selected to present her research as an ACP student competition winner at the national ACP meeting in May ...

In a world where knowledge about health and bioscience problems is informed by an ever-accelerating flow of complex data, and where health care expenses are rising dramatically, the key to unlocking solutions and driving down costs lies in ...

Michael Shapiro, D.O., has been named director of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cardiovascular computed tomography (CT) at Oregon Health & Science University with appointments as assistant professor in both the Department of Medicine ...

One thing Herbert Rosebay, M.D., has learned from his nearly 60 years as a neurologist is that medical books haven't changed all that much since the 1800s. Of course, there are more photographs than drawings, the tools are a bit more sophisticated and ...

Myths about breasts and breast cancer seem to be everywhere. Does antiperspirant really cause cancer? What about underwire bras? Elizabeth Steiner, M.D., will give the straight story during “Bras and Breasts: Separating Fact From Fiction About Breast ...

The Oregon Opportunity investment, a $500 million public-private partnership to expand OHSU research, continues to pay dividends by a number of measures. According to data from the National Institutes of Health, the nation's largest public funding ...

First-year medical students Devon Greer and Jesse Schonau-Taylor, and Ian Penner, first-year student in the Physician Assistant Program, won the Men's Relay Division of the Portland Triathlon, held over Labor Day weekend. Competing as the "OHSU Future ...

WHAT: “Nutrition in the Womb” – a four-day seminar on how improving the diets of girls and young women will reduce the burden of chronic disease in the next generation. Sponsors are the Oregon Health & Science University Heart Research Center, The ...

Coping with some of the debilitating physical effects of Parkinson's disease may be a matter of mind over body, an integrative medicine expert says. Kristine Hanna, Ph.D., a former psychologist with the Integrative Medicine Program at the Oregon ...

The Oregon Poison Center at Oregon Health & Science University hopes to better understand spider bites in the Northwest by determining which spiders bite, which cause skin loss (ulcers), and specifically whether the much-maligned hobo spider does ...