Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers are closer to understanding why certain chronic myeloid leukemia mutations are not stopped by the revolutionary targeted cancer pill, Gleevec, or similar therapies in that drug ...

Statin use has grown rapidly since 1992, and seems likely to increase in light of the recent, widely-reported Jupiter Study on the drugs’ benefits in patients with low cholesterol but elevated C-reactive protein. Eye disorders related to statins are ...

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has honored William Hersh, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE), Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, with its 2008 ...

According to Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers, there is strong evidence that patients can have varying clinical responses to medications depending on the specific makeup of their cancer. The study, which focused ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s School of Dentistry have found that a significant percentage of dental patients with the inflammatory diseases irreversible pulpitis and apical periodontitis also have the Epstein-Barr virus. The ...

What will motivate the elderly, the chronically ill and the medically underserved to use interactive information technology systems to actively help manage their own health problems? What barriers have prevented people in these groups from using such ...

Dr. Tamara Phillips will receive the award based on her exciting new finding just published as a direct submission to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Oregon Health & Science University researchers are playing the leading role in developing a new breast cancer screening method that will likely reduce or eliminate unnecessary biopsy surgeries. Their findings are published in the current issue of the ...

For both children and adult women, many of these prior visits were for injuries. Thirty percent of children eventually diagnosed with child abuse did not have the diagnosis recorded until at least their second visit; 7 percent had three or more visits ...