A breakthrough study published online this week in the journal Nucleic Acids Research suggests that it may be possible to treat genetic disease detected in the womb by safely and efficiently delivering gene-altering therapies through a kind of reverse amniocentesis.

Dr. Brian Gibbs, Ph.D., M.P.A., urges "us all to step up, hold the torch and commit to navigating a pathway toward a more equitable healing community as our contribution to this nationwide challenge."

Six Oregon health care organizations joined together in a $21.5 million partnership with Central City Concern to build 382 units of affordable housing. The projects will include a new building at 122nd and Burnside that will also provide medical services to those recovering from mental illness and drug addiction.

A panel of leading experts today issued the 4th Edition of the Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. The updated guidelines provide recommendations for 18 monitoring and treatment topics for patients with severe traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, including surgical procedures, the use of monitors that measure intracranial pressure, preventing and treating brain swelling, and nutrition.

Opioid abuse and addiction is a tremendous national problem, claiming thousands of lives and doubling the number of people who reported heroin addiction in a single decade (2003 to 2013).

OHSU President Joe Robertson, M.D., M.B.A., has appointed John Hunter, M.D., F.A.C.S., interim dean for the School of Medicine, effective Oct. 1. President Robertson has served as acting dean since Mark Richardson’s, M.D., M.B.A., tragic accident Aug. 13.

New research reveals for the first time the atomic structures of a key molecular receptor in the brain, which opens the door for developing medications that could block activation of these receptors to address a variety of conditions, ranging from pain to high blood pressure to early formation of blood clots.

Mark Richardson, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the OHSU School of Medicine, was critically injured Saturday, Aug. 13, while doing a home repair. Joe Robertson, M.D., M.B.A., OHSU president and former School of Medicine dean, is the acting dean.

The OHSU School of Medicine "cloaked" 153 students in white coats during the annual White Coat ceremony, a rite-of passage event where students are officially welcomed to the health care profession.

OHSU School of Medicine will celebrate its 129th entering class with a White Coat Ceremony symbolizing the beginning of each M.D. student’s journey to becoming a physician.