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Beth Darnall, PhD, develops self-treatment tool for phantom pain

September 10, 2010

Phantom pain is often a chronic, debilitating condition that affects about 80 percent of people who have lost a limb. Of those who acquire phantom pain, as many as 85 percent report continued phantom pain 2 years after amputation; and for some people, ...

Beth Darnall, PhD, develops self-treatment tool for phantom pain

September 10, 2010

Phantom pain is often a chronic, debilitating condition that affects about 80 percent of people who have lost a limb. Of those who acquire phantom pain, as many as 85 percent report continued phantom pain 2 years after amputation; and for some people, ...

OHSU recruits national leader in women’s health, maternal-fetal medicine

September 09, 2010

Earlier this summer, the School of Medicine welcomed Aaron Caughey, MD, Ph.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., as our new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the OHSU Center for Women’s Health. Below is a School of Medicine news ...

OHSU recruits national leader in women’s health, maternal-fetal medicine

September 09, 2010

Earlier this summer, the School of Medicine welcomed Aaron Caughey, MD, Ph.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., as our new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the OHSU Center for Women’s Health. Below is a School of Medicine news ...

Dr. Nelson quoted on Osteoporosis Screening

September 08, 2010

A government task force panel widened its advice recently, saying that routine screening for osteoporosis should include all younger postmenopausal women who have at least the same chance of a bone break as an older woman. However, frequency of ...

Dr. Nelson quoted on Osteoporosis Screening

September 08, 2010

A government task force panel widened its advice recently, saying that routine screening for osteoporosis should include all younger postmenopausal women who have at least the same chance of a bone break as an older woman. However, frequency of ...

August marks 50th anniversary of landmark heart valve surgery

August 25, 2010

Fifty years ago this month, a groundbreaking heart surgery occurred at the University of Oregon Medical School, the predecessor to OHSU. The valve, developed by Albert Starr, MD and M. Lowell Edwards, BS, a retired engineer, consisted of a Silastic ...

August marks 50th anniversary of landmark heart valve surgery

August 25, 2010

Fifty years ago this month, a groundbreaking heart surgery occurred at the University of Oregon Medical School, the predecessor to OHSU. The valve, developed by Albert Starr, MD and M. Lowell Edwards, BS, a retired engineer, consisted of a Silastic ...

Dr. Kirsch quoted in NY Times article on Cymbalta approval

August 24, 2010

Jeffrey Kirsch, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, was quoted in a New York Times article on the drug Cymbalta being approved for chronic pain. On Thursday, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug ...