Oregon Health & Science University researchers are reporting the discovery of an early survival advantage when a combination of surgery and radiation therapy is used for patients with a rare but deadly bile duct cancer. “Surgery and radiotherapy shows ...

Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that highly targeted radiation therapy for prostate cancer can ensure that the majority of persons with this tumor will not have any long-term rectal damage. A group of 231 ...

By most measures of an academic medical center’s success in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, fiscal year 2007 was a banner year for Oregon Health & Science University. OHSU researchers disclosed 132 inventions, more than in any previous year ...

Random drug and alcohol testing does not reliably keep student-athletes from using. In fact, the mere presence of drug testing increases some risk factors for future substance use, Oregon Health & Science University researchers report. Their findings ...

For Angie Nice, an end to her epileptic seizures would mean being able to participate in two activities many people take for granted: Work and travel. They're activities that don't come easily for Nice, 38, since she can suffer as many as four ...

In a study of the maternity records of more than 6,000 women, David J.P. Barker, M.D., Ph.D.,and Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., of Oregon Health & Science University discovered a strong correlation between the size and shape of a woman's hips and her ...

Brian J. Druker, M.D., director of the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute, will receive the prestigious Keio Medical Science Prize. The award from the Keio Medical Science Fund is made to researchers in recognition of their ...

A summary of evidence on the diagnosis and treatment of low-back pain has prompted the American Pain Society (ASP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) to issue a new treatment guideline. The guideline is based on a thorough analysis of ...

The season in which a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer has been shown to affect his survivability. Men diagnosed in the summer and autumn months have a better chance of survival than if they were diagnosed in the spring and winter, according to ...

EMS agencies across North America currently use slightly varying methods to try to revive victims of cardiac arrest. OHSU, along with local EMS and health system partners, hopes to conduct a study in the Portland metropolitan area that will determine ...