The Oregon National Primate Research Center and the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine have been named to a national team of institutions hoping to preserve or restore fertility in women battling cancer. The Oncofertility ...

Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute are looking at how the hormone DHEA, affects certain breast cancers. In the lab researchers noticed that when they put DHEA on estrogen-receptor-negative and ...

The Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University has received another clean bill of health from the United States Department of Agriculture. Approximately twice a year, the USDA conducts unannounced inspections of ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a deadly lung disease primarily attributed to smoking. As a result, it receives fewer research dollars and not a lot of sympathy, according to international COPD expert Sonia Buist, M.D., Oregon ...

Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University have identified a cause of type 2 diabetes and a possible method for counteracting the obesity-linked disease. The research, which has been conducted with ...

A study led by a team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University has demonstrated for the first time that molecular imaging with contrast-enhanced ultrasound and targeted microbubbles is effective in detecting at a very early stage ...

Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D.,an internationally recognized expert in pediatric neurology at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University, recently was awarded a prestigious $2,346,313 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from ...

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have figured out how to turn a mouse into a factory for human liver cells that can be used to test how pharmaceuticals are metabolized. The technique, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, could ...

Two potential therapies using antioxidant compounds – one found in red grapes and another found in leafy green vegetables – are among Alzheimer's disease studies being supported this year by Oregon's tax check-off funds. The Oregon Alzheimer's Disease ...

Oregon Health & Science University’s director of technology and research collaborations told a congressional subcommittee this week that a more than quarter-century-old law that allows universities to patent inventions stemming from federally funded ...