The state has announced the first providers in Oregon's new Medicaid Primary Care Loan Repayment Program aimed at increasing the number of health professionals serving in rural and underserved areas.
The final results of a stroke prevention study in patients with narrowed brain arteries have confirmed earlier findings: medication plus lifestyle changes are safer and more effective at preventing stroke than a surgical technique called stenting.
The Oregon Office of Rural Health at Oregon Health & Science University has awarded the 2013 Oregon Rural Health Hero Award to Verna Pettyjohn of Burns, Ore. The award honors an outstanding person, program or organization that has improved the quality and availability of health care in rural communities.
October 14, 2013 — A research team led by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of California, Davis, reveals that childhood gunshot injuries, while uncommon, are more severe, require more major surgery, have greater mortality and higher per-patient costs than any oth
September 30, 2013 – Four scientists at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum
September 24, 2013 – Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and its Knight Cancer Institute plan to take on Phil and Penny Knight's challenge to raise a cumulative $1 billion in two years to build a next-generation research program that will expand upon its exploration of
The original version of this news release distributed Sept. 20, 2013, included an incorrect figure in the second bullet point for the number of "commercialization” agreements OHSU signed in fiscal year 2013. There were 81 commercialization agreements, as the first paragraph states.
