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At 29, Dan Hawkins wasn’t thinking about cancer. He was busy working, traveling, following his favorite sports teams and playing poker. But his diagnosis inspired him to organize Portland's...
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The seeds of heart disease risk are planted before birth
Heart disease, rare only a century ago, is now the most common cause of death worldwide. Many explanations for this meteoric rise have been put forth, but most have fallen well short of explaining...
NIH Director Collins ignites optimism and collaboration during campus visit
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., spent a day at OHSU sprinkling some fairy dust of possibility that is spurring renewed optimism and new grant applications to fuel...
At OHSU, a mother’s passion inspires
OHSU seems to run in the family for four of the six Mansoor siblings, and it all started with their mother, Salma. Steven Mansoor, M.D., Ph.D., David Mansoor, M.D., Lori Mansoor, L.C.S.W. and...
Top five reasons to volunteer at OHSU
In 2015, more than 1,300 people volunteered their time at OHSU to help advance the boundaries of medicine, improve patients' quality of life and share their genuine passion for serving our...
The evolving human: Will our kids be another species?
We live very differently than our ancestors did several hundred years ago – we have more food, have indoor plumbing and are generally more clean. We also hve more scientific knowledge to combat...
Intel & OHSU Announce Collaborative Cancer Cloud at Intel Developer Forum
Each year millions of people all over the world, including more than 1 million patients in the United States, learn that they have a cancer diagnosis. Instead of going through painful chemotherapy...
Three Questions for OHSU’s Dr. Karen Oh
Meet Karen Oh, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology in the OHSU School of Medicine and Director of Breast Imaging at OHSU. Dr. Oh functions as part of a multidisciplinary breast team...
Childhood hearing loss inspires OHSU researcher’s breakthrough
As a child, Peter Steyger, was cured of meningitis. Unfortunately, the same drug that saved him caused significant and long-lasting hearing loss. Now a neuroscience researcher at OHSU, Dr. Steyger...
Breaking new ground in global health for girls and women
What happens when you get nutrition scientists and nutrition program practitioners from around the globe together? It turns out these two groups rarely interact, resulting in both having less than...
Research Week: Three Questions for OHSU’s Evan Lind, Ph.D.
Research Week, a university-wide annual event celebrating research performed by students, faculty, research-ranked employees, postdocs and staff, launched today! We're marking the occasion by...