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Medical Research Foundation announces 2011 award winners
November 10, 2011
The Medical Research Foundation of Oregon has announced the recipients of its 2011 awards for scientific leadership and innovation in Oregon. The awards were presented Nov. 9 at a reception at Portland's Governor Hotel. Honorees The MRF presented a ...
Early evidence in OHSU study shows meditation helping vets with PTSD
November 10, 2011
The flashbacks and nightmares came often for Robert Singh. U.S. Army veteran Singh served three tours in Iraq, from 2004 through 2010. He was an Army medic for most of that time. It was a violent, dangerous and intense job. Singh was diagnosed with ...
Patent issued for OHSU stem cell cloning
November 01, 2011
Oregon Health & Science University’s unique method of transforming a person's own skin cells into stem cells has officially been patented. The United States Patent and Trademark Office, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued the ...
OHSU Dream Team researcher Joe Gray elected to Institute of Medicine
October 28, 2011
Joe Gray, Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute’s ‘Dream Team’ cancer researcher and chair of OHSU’s Biomedical Engineering Department, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, one of the ...
Hospital readmission risk requires further study
October 18, 2011
Factors contributing to hospital readmission risk remain poorly understood and methodologies to measure risk need further study and refinement, according to research published in the Oct. 19 issue of JAMA, the journal of the American Medical ...
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute researchers share results of 18 studies at international radiation oncology conference
October 10, 2011
Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute physicians shared the results of 18 studies at the 53nd annual conference for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The research presented included two significant patient care ...
OHSU researchers uncover cause of hypertension from antirejection drugs
October 06, 2011
Modern medicine’s ability to save lives through organ transplantation has been revolutionized by the development of drugs that prevent the human body from rejecting the transplanted organ. But those antirejection drugs have their own side effects — ...
Bob and Charlee Moore of Bob's Red Mill commit to donate $25 million to launch OHSU nutrition institute
September 16, 2011
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) today announced a $25 million philanthropic partnership with Bob and Charlee Moore — founders of Milwaukie-based Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods — to confront what is widely considered to be the world's greatest ...
FEI, OHSU partner to create a ‘Living Lab for Cell Biology’ with high-performance electron microscopes for disease research
September 13, 2011
FEI and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) today announced a partnership to create the OHSU/FEI Living Lab for Cell Biology that will provide researchers with several state-of-the-art electron microscopes to advance the understanding and ...
Oregon's mental health parity law improves coverage at minimal cost, study shows
September 12, 2011
Oregon’s mental health parity law, which prohibits commercial health plans from imposing limits on mental health and substance abuse services that are not also imposed on medical-surgical services, has improved insurance coverage without substantial ...