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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The paper “Human leukocyte antigen susceptibility map for SARS-CoV-2” published in the Journal of Virology is the School of Medicine’s Paper of the Month. Principal investigator Reid...