African Americans have a greater risk of dementia than white and non-white Hispanic populations, yet the bulk of dementia research has not explicitly examined African Americans or the heterogeneity...
Lowering levels of male hormones called androgens makes prostate cancers shrink or grow more slowly. Androgen deprivation therapy, or ADT, is a mainstay of treatment, but it is also associated with...
Wafaa BinAli, M.N., R.N., is an international student from Saudi Arabia, where very few nurses have doctorates. She came to the United States to conduct research in acute kidney injury at the School...
The experience of human illness affects not only the patient, but family members and other care partners — that much we know. Investigations of patients and their care partners, or dyads, have...
Welcome to Michelle van Ryn, Ph.D., who has been appointed professor and Grace Phelps Distinguished Professor at the OHSU School of Nursing. She comes to OHSU from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester where...
ARCS Foundation Portland recently awarded two OHSU School of Nursing Ph.D. students the ARCS Foundation Scholar Award. Quin Denfeld and Suzi Frase are the first School of Nursing recipients of the...
Advertisements, news articles and entire reality TV series are based on the common knowledge that obesity, physical inactivity and a poor diet are risk factors for number of chronic illnesses and...