OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
PORTLAND, Ore. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Neurocrine Biosciences Inc., have successfully tested a research medication that both stimulates appetite and reduces metabolic rate in preclinical trials. Neurocrine, which developed the test medication for this research, is now developing a related medication that will likely be tested in patients suffering...OHSU scientists develop MRI approach to improve breast cancer detection
PORTLAND, Ore. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) are developing a new imaging method that may provide a clearer diagnosis of breast cancer. The research is published in the latest issue of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. AIRC Director Charles Springer, Ph.D., is senior author, and AIRC Manager, Xin Li, Ph.D., is first author o...OHSU researcher says FDA could broaden access to results of clinical drug trials
A researcher at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is calling upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to share more information provided by pharmaceutical companies regarding their clinical drug trials. This database could be freely accessible to health care providers, researchers and the public. Such a move would be cost-effective and cou...OHSU unique in broadbased teaching of new breast exam recommendations
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A new report published by the American Cancer Society recommends training health care providers in a standardized version of clinical breast exam to find palpable cancers. The Breast Health Education Program (BHEP) of the OHSU Cancer Institute is the nation's only academic program that currently offers training matching this recommendation at all levels of medical education.......OHSU's Archbold wins GSA's 2004 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Award
The Gerontological Society of America has chosen Dr. Patricia G. Archbold, the Elnora E. Thomson Distinguished Professor at Oregon Health Sciences University's School of Nursing, as the recipient of the Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Award. This distinguished honor, presented by GSA's Clinical Medicine section in collaboration with the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nu...NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
Portland, Ore - Oregon Health & Science University's research team is one of only 14 teams around the country that will help the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, look for proteins that activate the body's immune response to emerging infectious diseases. ......OHSU's team will focus on tuberculosis and will use cells from TB...OHSU study: Testosterone deprivation makes men forget
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon Health & Science University researchers studying how testosterone deprivation affects verbal memory found that men undergoing the prostate cancer therapy forget things faster than their healthy counterparts. ... ...Scientists in the OHSU School of Medicine's departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Medicine, and the OHSU Cancer Institute, in a study presented Sunday to...PITT, OHSU: When early life stress occurs determines its impact later
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24 Scientists at the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh report significant stress early in life can have varying lifelong impacts depending of the timing of the stress exposure. The research also demonstrates that the impact can become even more profound when coupled with stress in adulthood. In a related but separate study, the researc...OHSU researchers study sixth-graders to prevent type 2 diabetes
This fall Oregon Health & Science University is partnering with Aloha Park K-8 School, Beaverton, Ore., in a pilot study to test whether changes in physical education (PE) classes, food choices in cafeterias and vending machines, and advertisements for healthy choices can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.... ...The pilot study, dubbed "STAND UP!" or Schools Tackle Activity Nutrition and Diabete...OHSU vaccine and gene therapy institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research
PORTLAND, Ore. Researchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University have received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop new methods for vaccinating humans against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. Louis Picker, M.D., associate director of th...OHSU researcher finds genetic explanations for some previously unexplained sudden cardiac deaths
Imagine walking down the street, collapsing without warning and dying within minutes. According to the American Heart Association, about 250,000 Americans suffer sudden cardiac death each year, and half of them may have no prior warning. And, in 5 to 10 percent of all cases, these sudden cardiac deaths remain unexplained since the heart may have no visible abnormality....... In an effort to explo...OHSU study: Rate of brain volume loss predicts dementia
PORTLAND, Ore. The rate of brain volume loss may help doctors predict whether a patient will develop dementia before they even start showing signs of the disease, Oregon Health & Science University researchers discovered....... Scientists at the Layton Center for Aging & Alzheimer's Disease Research in the OHSU School of Medicine's Department of Neurology found that rates of total brain volume l...OHSU researchers uncover genes involved in early stages of Alzheimer's disease
PORTLAND, Ore. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have identified a set of genes that appear to be involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease. They hope this information will help scientists create of methods for early detection of the disease and for the development of therapeutic strategies to delay or even stop its progression. P. Hemachandra Reddy, Ph.D., of the...Apraxia of speech in children is focus of new OHSU grant
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A new National Institutes of Health grant will enable Oregon Health & Science University researchers to create a tool for diagnosing children with apraxia of speech -- a neurologically based speech motor disorder. Children with apraxia of speech have great difficulty planning and producing the speech movements they need to make with their tongue, lips, jaw and velum, or soft pal...OHSU researchers, collaborators make recommendations to self-treating physicians
PORTLAND, Ore. An analysis of self-doctoring among physicians shows that while the practice has benefits, it can also have serious pitfalls. The study, directed by an Oregon Health & Science University researcher/physician, was conducted to discover whether physicians with a serious illness doctored themselves, their reasons for doing so, and what the consequences were. ......"I was struck by...OHSU scientists advance fertility preservation procedure
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have significantly advanced a procedure aimed at preserving fertility in female cancer survivors. The research has resulted in the first successful birth of a primate following a procedure called ovarian tissue transplant. The female rhesus monkey was born at the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center. Details of this breakt...OHSU receives grant to study evolutionary computing for biomedical image analysis
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A new OGI School of Science & Engineering grant to study evolutionary computing for biomedical image analysis exemplifies the sort of new research opportunities the graduate school has capitalized on since its 2001 merger with Oregon Health & Science University.... ..."Whether it's computer science, environmental science or biomedical engineering, our goal is to be collaborative...OHSU programs for teen athletes are national models, reflect Bush's steroid-free sports initiative
PORTLAND, Ore. -- In his State of the Union address, President Bush urged professional athletes to stop using performance-enhancing steroids as shortcuts to success and asked players and coaches to be better role models for young, impressionable fans. Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine has long been a national leader in adolescent health promotion and drug use prevention, and i...OHSU researchers hope to prevent childhood asthma with new eczema drug
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine researchers hope treating babies newly diagnosed with eczema using the study drug Elidel will not only control painful skin flare-ups, but ultimately prevent the onset of childhood asthma.... ..."Researchers have long known that eczema and asthma are linked; however, there currently isn't an established, long-term treatment that controls ecz...OHSU researchers study recent monkeypox outbreak
PORTLAND, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are trying to gain a better understanding of last summer's monkeypox outbreak. The researchers traveled to the Midwest twice during the past few months to obtain blood samples from residents exposed to the disease. A third trip is planned for December. The samples will be used to better understand the human immune system's ability...OHSU researchers study physical and mental impacts of exercise on the brain
NEW ORLEANS, La. Exercise appears to allow for better blood vessel development in the brain and allow a person to be more mentally engaged. Those are the conclusions of a study partially conducted by Oregon Health & Science University researchers. The results will be presented Saturday Nov. 8 at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in New Orleans.... ..."While we already know that exercis...OHSU doctors use 'putty' to prevent hemorrhagic stroke
PORTLAND, Ore. Two Oregon Health & Science University patients are the first on the West Coast to receive a new stroke prevention treatment that uses a spongy, polymer compound to seal a brain aneurysm.... ...The patients, Joyce Turner, 68, of Kings Valley and Rob Pardee, 48, of Talent, underwent back-to-back procedures Oct. 23 at OHSU Hospital to repair aneurysms weakened areas of an artery wa...OHSU study shows four daily servings of fruits & vegetables reduce breast cancer risk by half
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Women who eat four or more servings of fruits and vegetable per day have a 50 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared with women who eat two or fewer servings a day, according to a study presented by Oregon Health & Science University researchers at the second annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. ...... "Th...OHSU researcher co-authors National State-By-State Report Card on women and smoking; Oregon flunks
PORTLAND, Ore. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death among women, yet 38 states, including Oregon, received failing grades for not meeting national goals to reduce and prevent smoking among girls and women. The report shows that our nation is not doing enough to stop this major killer of women and the billions in health care costs it imposes on state and national budgets, according...OHSU researcher presents findings on appetite-reducing hormone at neuroscience meeting
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon Health & Science University scientist Michael Cowley, Ph.D., will present research findings about an appetite-reducing hormone found naturally in the body this week during the 2002 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Orlando, Fla. OHSU researchers collaborated with the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London to study the impacts of the hormone secre...OHSU researchers study healthy aging population
PORTLAND, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are investigating why some aging persons develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease, while others do not. Healthy elders aged 84 and older, and those aged of 60 to 74, are participating in the Oregon Brain Aging Study at OHSU. The study compares brain structure, memory, concentration and problem solving in healthy participants to pa...OHSU chemoprotectant technology licensed for biotechnology development
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has announced the completion of a licensing agreement with Oxiquant, Inc., a private bio-pharmaceutical company, founded and financed by Paramount Capital Investments, LLC, a New York-based venture capital and merchant banking firm specializing in the bio-pharmaceutical industry. ...... The agreement grants the exclusive right to Oxiquant...OHSU takes part in unique Alzheimers treatment trial
PORTLAND, Ore.-- Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are taking part in a multi- center, national clinical trial aimed at preventing the progression of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The trial involves the use of a drug named LY450139, which in mouse models is shown to inhibit an enzyme implicated in the formation of beta-amyloid deposits in the brain. These deposits, also called...OHSU ethicist offers guidance for physicians with patients using alternative medicine
PORTLAND, Ore. An ethicist in the Oregon Health & Science University Center for Ethics in Health Care has published new guidelines for conventionally trained physicians whose patients are interested in utilizing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The guidelines are contained in an article published in the Oct. 15 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. The article is part of a se...OHSU receives $7.8 million NIH grant to develop first ultrasound to also deliver heart treatment
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon Health & Science University is leading a new multicenter partnership that hopes to revolutionize the treatment of various forms of heart disease. Instead of using one device for ultrasound imaging of the heart and another to deliver treatment, this team plans to develop, for the first time, one miniaturized device that can do both. The team will create three different ult...OHSU researchers reveal how bacteria crawl on surfaces
.PORTLAND, Ore. -- Until recently, researchers had little understanding of how bacteria like E. coli and Neisseria that cause diseases such as diarrhea, meningitis, and gonorrhea are able to move over human mucosal surfaces to cause infection. Now research conducted at Oregon Health Sciences University shows how these microbes use threadlike protein filaments to manuever themselves into position...OHSU researchers capture cell transmissions on tape for first time
.PORTLAND, Ore. -- Billions of tiny transmissions take place between the cells of our brains every day. This happens whenever nerve cells reach out toward each other and connect by forming structures called synapses. At these synapses, packets of information sent by one cell are received by other cells. Researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University's Vollum Institute report they have successf...OHSU researchers discover new synapses in brain
.For decades, scientists have known that nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other through high-speed contacts called synapses. Now, researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University's Vollum Institute and the University of Oxford have discovered that synapses also are used to communicate with other specialized brain cells called oligodendrocytes. Studying these previously unknown syna.... . . Portland, Ore. -- Scientists at Oregon Health Sciences University announce they have replicated the naturally occuring birth of a non-human primate twin using a lab technique called embryo splitting. The method, which has produced a healthy, female monkey named Tetra shows promise for researchers hoping to safely and speedily move discoveries from the laboratory bench to the patient's be...New alternative medicine center opens at OHSU
... ... ............ Portland, Ore.--According to a recent survey, 40 percent of adults in the...United States have turned to alternative medicine to try and treat what ails...them. While many complementary and alternative treatments work, researchers...admit there's a lack of scientific data on the subject. Now, an attempt is...underway at Oregon Health Sciences University to solve some of...OHSU researchers test medication that targets fever without side effects
. September 21, 1999, Portland, Ore.--Each year, cold and flu season closely follows the beginning.of the school year. But for some of those who become ill, drugs that fight high.fever can also wage a war in other organs in the body. Many common fever.reducers like ibuprofen can agitate ulcers, cause upset stomachs and trigger.kidney problems in some patients. Now, thanks in part to research at...OHSU Researcher studies possible negative impacts of long-term soccer play
. Lower Mental Skills Testing Scores for Amateur Soccer Players May Be Linked to.Headers and Head Injuries . . Portland, Ore. -- Years of rough play on the soccer field may have a negative.impact on a player's mental function. That's according to research reported by.Dutch Neuropsychologist Erik J.T. Matser and Oregon Health Sciences University.researcher Muriel D. Lezak, Ph.D., professor of ne.... For the first time, patients with a specific form of leukemia will.receive an investigational drug therapy aimed precisely at the molecules causing.their cancer. The first patient, 68-year-old Bud Romine from Tillamook, Ore.,.will take his first dose of the experimental drug on Thursday, June 25, 1998, at.Oregon Health Sciences University. . The often fatal blood disease is call...