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Pushing Environmental Biomedical Research Out to Sea
November 17, 2005
Imagine a marine animal that fights cancer. Or a microcsopic sea plant that counteracts the greenhouse effect. Or even marine bacteria that clean up Superfund pollution sites. These are all plausible scenarios for a pair of well-known marine ...
OHSU Research Reveals Likely Connection Between Early-Life Stress And Mental Health Problems During The Teenage Years
November 16, 2005
Research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University and at the University of Pittsburgh suggests a strong link between significant stress early in life and the increased incidence of mental health ...
Restricting Diet May Reverse Early-Stage Parkinson's
November 14, 2005
A new Oregon Health & Science University and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center study suggests that early-stage Parkinson's disease patients who lower their calorie intake may boost levels of an essential brain chemical lost from the ...
Study Suggests Common Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Can Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
November 01, 2005
Men who take even small amounts of common cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lovastatin and Simvastatin reduce their risk of prostate cancer by 65 percent, according to a new Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute study published in a ...
Vollum Director, Richard Goodman, Elected to Institute of Medicine
November 01, 2005
Richard H. Goodman, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Goodman, also professor of cell and developmental biology, and ...
Primate Research Center Study Reveals Naturally-Occuring Hormone Can Partially Reduces Food Intake, Body Weight
October 27, 2005
Research at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) at Oregon Health & Science University has demonstrated that a hormone found naturally in the body has the ability to cause limited weight loss. Specifically, the research revealed that ...
Birthweight, Growth Patterns Into Childhood Reveal Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Later in Life
October 27, 2005
The risk of developing coronary heart disease as an adult is more strongly related to childhood growth patterns than body weight at any particular point in development, according to a new study published in the Oct. 27 New England Journal of Medicine. ...
Dirty Drugs Have Their Day
October 25, 2005
Just how 'dirty' should a cancer drug be? While it's not a question cancer patients typically ponder, the answer could profoundly affect their treatment. Dirty drugs - those that simultaneously inhibit more than one of a tumor's driving forces - are ...
Nationally Prominent Bariatic Surgeon At OHSU Weighs In On Three Studies To Be Published In This Week's JAMA
October 19, 2005
Bruce M. Wolfe, M.D., adjunct professor of surgery (bariatrics) at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, OHSU Digestive Health Center, and John M. Morton, M.D., M.P.H., of Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., have written an ...
VGTI Researchers Receive $12.6 Million To Determine Why The Elderly Are Most Susceptible To West Nile Virus, Look For Better Protection Methods For This Population
October 11, 2005
Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) have received a $12.6 million grant from the federal government to assist in efforts to better protect the elderly against West Nile virus and related ...