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Tuality Healthcare and OHSU announce clinical affiliation

Tuality Healthcare and OHSU announce clinical affiliation

February 02, 2016
Tuality Healthcare and Oregon Health & Science University today announced a final agreement that will integrate the organizations’ clinical services. The affiliation combines Tuality’s deep community roots with OHSU’s role as a provider of complex and ...
Uncovering the financial ties of advocates for cancer drug approval

Uncovering the financial ties of advocates for cancer drug approval

February 01, 2016
Speakers who nominally represent cancer patients at advisory meetings on new drugs often have financial ties with the company seeking marketing approval. And those ties aren’t always disclosed, according to an analysis appearing in JAMA Internal ...
OHSU exploring expansion of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

OHSU exploring expansion of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

January 28, 2016
Oregon Health & Science University today announced plans to explore the expansion of OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The proposed new facility would create the first children’s hospital in the Pacific Northwest — and one of the few in the ...
Study finds link between lead exposure and ADHD

Study finds link between lead exposure and ADHD

January 07, 2016
PORTLAND, Ore. – Scientists at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have defined the first causal link between blood lead exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in humans. While previous studies have associated lead blood levels with ...
Researchers elucidate network of genes that control when puberty begins

Researchers elucidate network of genes that control when puberty begins

December 15, 2015
In expanding our knowledge of how the brain controls the process of sexual development, researchers at Oregon Healthy & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh have identified for the first time members of an elaborate superfamily of genes that regulate the timing of puberty in highly evolved nonhuman primates. The Zinc finger, or ZNF, gene family comprises approximately 800 individual genes.
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