Over the years, orthopedic surgeon Dennis Crawford, MD., Ph.D., of Oregon Health & Science University found it difficult to obtain tissue for transplant to treat some of his patients suffering with severe joint disorders. "I found this unfortunate and ...

Christine Bennett-Hanes was 27 when she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. "I didn't think it was really possible for me to have cancer. I was too young," said Bennett-Hanes, now 41, of southwest Portland, and the mother of 7-year-old twins, Zoe ...

An assessment of injuries from the Oregon Trauma Registry and the Oregon Health & Science University Trauma Registry found an alarming trend in the number of injuries due to off-road vehicles. Richard Mullins, M.D., chief of trauma/critical care at ...

Each year thousands of people are injured sledding in city parks, on streets and in resort areas, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. In the wake of yesterday's snowstorm, Oregon Health & Science University Emergency Department ...

Nearly half of Oregon's hospitals cannot provide on-call specialist treatment around the clock to emergency patients in at least one specialty, despite paying substantial stipends, and 13 percent of Oregon's hospitals have had their trauma designation ...

A new program is coming to rural Oregonians to help their physicians identify dementia at an earlier stage through the Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Rural Practice-based Network (ORPRN). "We have found that it is often difficult for ...

Three technological centerpieces of Oregon Health & Science University's new Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) will be shipped, trucked, lifted and eased into place during the upcoming weeks. The center, which initially specializes in magnetic ...

At first glance, the blue, plastic container marked with letters representing the days of the week looks like an ordinary pill dispenser many seniors use to keep on schedule with their medication doses. It is, indeed, a pill dispenser, with its seven ...

By 14, Peter Johnson had survived brain cancer and a relapse of the disease in his shoulder. But it was treatment for the last tumor that would create his life's greatest challenges. Johnson, now 33, has suffered since 1986 from the effects of ...

Oregon Health & Science University will be the first on the West Coast to use a new, self-expanding stent to open clogged brain arteries when it installs the device in two Oregon women this morning. The stent, manufactured by medical device maker ...