Cuts in 2003 to the Oregon Health Plan, Oregon's Medicaid expansion program, led to a 20 percent increase in emergency department visits by the uninsured. The cuts also led to a nearly 50 percent increase in hospital admissions of uninsured emergency ...

Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that a tumor protein present in an aggressive form of breast cancer is related to a poor prognosis. The presence of the protein, called growth factor receptor-bound protein-7, ...

Oregon Health & Science University has licensed a family of compounds derived from black pepper extract – on which it owns the patents – to AdPharma, Inc. for potential pharmaceutical development. The compounds have shown potential in animal studies ...

Smokers with lung disease require more than brief smoking cessation interventions to successfully quit, researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Smoking Cessation Center report. Their recommendations will be published Tuesday, April 1, in ...

Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that an experimental drug known as SGX393 is effective against Gleevec-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The results of their study will be published the week of March ...

An OHSU psychiatrist has proposed that Internet addiction and other compulsive uses of the computer be officially listed in a manual used by psychiatrists worldwide to diagnose mental disorders. The editorial, written by Jerald Block, M.D., (faculty ...

A new study recently presented this week at the Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research in Los Angeles, Calif., indicates that a one-of-a-kind yoga program which combines yoga exercises, meditation and group discussion may alleviate the ills of ...

OHSU, Washington University researchers have identified the mechanism that makes a bioengineered enzyme function efficiently, opening the way to clinical development of the first safe clot busting agent for treating heart attacks and strokes.

Flat, non-polypoid colorectal neoplasms (NP-CRNs), which may be difficult to detect, appear to be relatively common and may have a greater association with cancer compared with the more routinely diagnosed type of colorectal polyps, according to a ...