PORTLAND, Ore. – Scientists at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have defined the first causal link between blood lead exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in humans. While previous studies have associated lead blood levels with ...

The out-of-hospital birth setting in Oregon was associated with a higher risk of perinatal death, while the in-hospital birth setting was associated with a higher risk for cesarean delivery and other obstetric interventions (e.g., induction or ...

In expanding our knowledge of how the brain controls the process of sexual development, researchers at Oregon Healthy & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh have identified for the first time members of an elaborate superfamily of genes that regulate the timing of puberty in highly evolved nonhuman primates. The Zinc finger, or ZNF, gene family comprises approximately 800 individual genes.

Cancer Research UK, one of the largest funders of cancer research globally, and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, a leader in precision cancer medicine, have formed an international collaboration to accelerate research in the early detection of cancer.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have been awarded a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study whether a particular group of infection-fighting cells, known as T cells, may be viable for the development of a vaccine aimed at combatting the global tuberculosis epidemic.

A massive search involving cancer researchers across the U.S. and Canada has revealed many of the altered genes and cell signaling pathways that drive a poorly understood form of kidney cancer, primary papillary renal cell carcinoma.