Alcoholism has traditionally been considered a male disease because there are many more alcoholic males than females. But a new study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center suggests that ...

Oregon is home to forested valleys, high desert, mountain ranges and rolling rivers, and lately, it seems, to a lot of lost people. How many times have you turned on the news to hear a report of someone who went climbing on Mt. Hood, hiking in the ...

Those with heavy hearts – in the literal not figurative sense – long have been known to be prone to cardiac arrest and sudden death. But many are not, and who among them is subject to serious risk is a mystery. To find clues to the puzzle, the ...

A new Grover C. Bagby Endowed Chair, named for the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute founder has been established to further prostate cancer research. The chair has been awarded to Tomasz M. Beer, M.D., director of the Prostate ...

Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have developed a Web-based software program that can help make more accurate predictions of long-term survival for head and neck cancer patients better predict their survivability. “This ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a unique new method for researching obesity and its treatments - by studying fish. Newly published data demonstrate zebrafish, small fish that measure between one and two inches in ...

Two new studies suggest older men and women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, are prone to increased bone loss. The jointly released studies by scientists at Oregon ...

StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEM) today announced the Phase I clinical trial of its proprietary HuCNS-SC™ product candidate (purified human neural stem cells) has successfully completed enrollment of the low-dose cohort and will proceed to the high-dose ...

A new study by Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers show when a patient and physician disagree about physical well-being, the patient has a higher risk of dying. The researchers found patients and their doctors disagree ...

Researchers from the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University have found steroid use among teen girls is not limited to athletes and often goes hand in hand with other unhealthy choices, including ...