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Heading Circulatory Disease Off at the Pass

July 17, 2008
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have devised an ultrasound imaging technique that picks up subtle early evidence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) that current conventional tests miss. The test, if approved for clinical use, could ...

Heading Circulatory Disease Off at the Pass

July 17, 2008
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have devised an ultrasound imaging technique that picks up subtle early evidence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) that current conventional tests miss. The test, if approved for clinical use, could ...

Red Cross Recognizes OHSU 'Heroes'

March 11, 2008
Three Oregon Health & Science University physicians have been honored for the part they played in saving Kathy Ryan, the 66-year-old Portland woman who collapsed last August near Mist, Ore., during the Hood-to-Coast Relay. She was revived by two ...

Red Cross Recognizes OHSU 'Heroes'

March 11, 2008
Three Oregon Health & Science University physicians have been honored for the part they played in saving Kathy Ryan, the 66-year-old Portland woman who collapsed last August near Mist, Ore., during the Hood-to-Coast Relay. She was revived by two ...

Key Found to Breakthrough Drug for Clot Victims

March 10, 2008
A team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and Washington University in St. Louis have described for the first time the mechanism that gives a mutant enzyme molecule that they have engineered - and patented - the potential to become a ...

Key Found to Breakthrough Drug for Clot Victims

March 10, 2008
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.

OHSU’s 500th Heart Recipient Spreads Her Wings

February 19, 2008
Monica Davenport has a life again after nearly a decade with a failing heart that imposed increasingly oppressive limits. She had to retire from her secretarial job in 2000 because she grew too weak even to carry file folders. As time wore on she was ...

OHSU’s 500th Heart Recipient Spreads Her Wings

February 19, 2008
Monica Davenport has a life again after nearly a decade with a failing heart that imposed increasingly oppressive limits. She had to retire from her secretarial job in 2000 because she grew too weak even to carry file folders. As time wore on she was ...
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