Primary care research’s role in ending health inequity
Researchers should consider primary care settings as a crucial avenue for understanding the full picture of health inequity and developing real-world interventions. In a special communication...
Category: Discoveries
NOD2: A new understanding of a molecule holds promise for children with Blau syndrome
New research shows disease-causing mutation doesn’t incite inflammation — it fails to prevent inflammation. Arthritis, papular skin rashes and uveitis characterize the pediatric disease Blau...
NIH-OHSU study: Short-term brain inflammation may help treat neurological tumors, disease
New research, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has determined that activating neuroinflammation, via osmotic disruption of the blood-brain barrier, may...
Improving smoking and blood pressure outcomes with operational changes
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Primary risk factors for CVD include high blood pressure (BP), high cholesterol levels, and smoking. These risk...
Discovery in songbird brings new insights into cholesterol transport and viral entry
New research reveals an evolutionary genetic difference that sets songbirds up to have high cholesterol. The birds, though, thwart expectations. A study published today in the journal Proceedings...
OHSU Casey Eye Institute grows gene and cell therapy research by performing its first stem cell therapy in the retina
The OHSU Casey Eye Institute has used a stem cell therapy in the retina for the first time as part of a Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of an experimental treatment for an...
Patients who magnify pain more likely to expect opioids, study shows
Research may help providers address "pain catastrophizing" as part of patient-centered care A recent study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine shows that patients who...
Precipitous decline in opioid prescribing in large network of Community Health Centers
In a JAMA article published last week, researchers from OHSU Family Medicine and OCHIN found that opioid prescribing decreased across a large network of Community Health Centers (CHCs) between 2009...
Building out knowledge for a potential AML immunotherapy
The paper “Reversible suppression of T cell function in the bone marrow microenvironment of acute myeloid leukemia” published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Oily molecules key to Zika virus replication, infection
Zika virus emerged as a threat to global health in 2016 when it was linked to a spike in cases of microcephaly in newborns. In a modest rehearsal of what we’ve seen with SARS-CoV-2 research, there...