The OHSU School of Nursing is named one of the top U.S. universities for online graduate nursing programs.

In an Everyday Health story about new research that suggests the health benefits of using salt substitutes, Diane Stadler, Ph.D., says the findings “demonstrate that even individuals with normal blood pressure can lower their blood pressure by using salt substitutes and can do so without the risks of becoming hypotensive, a condition which can cause light headedness, dizziness, fainting and falls.”

The world’s first successful heart valve replacement surgery, which occurred in 1960 at what is now OHSU, and after surgeon Albert Starr, M.D., and engineer Lowell Edwards co-invented the Starr-Edwards artificial mitral heart valve.

In the run-up to the Super Bowl, a story about the heightened risk of gambling addiction due to wider mainstream acceptance of online sports betting includes comments from Jeff Marotta, Ph.D.: “What this did is offer a new kind of product that is much more attractive to a younger audience, who are very comfortable engaging in transactions over the internet.”

The co-founder of international whole-grain foods manufacturer Bob’s Red Mill dies at 94. Moore and his wife, Charlee, who died in 2018, made philanthropic gifts to Oregon universities, including OHSU, to establish the Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness. Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., says, “From the first day I met Bob, he was always asking how we could convince people to eat a healthier diet. He saw it as his mission, and it became ours as well."

The co-founder of international whole-grain foods manufacturer Bob’s Red Mill dies at 94. Moore and his wife, Charlee, who died in 2018, made philanthropic gifts to Oregon universities, including OHSU, to establish the Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness. Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., says, “From the first day I met Bob, he was always asking how we could convince people to eat a healthier diet. He saw it as his mission, and it became ours as well.”

News coverage continues on an OHSU study that found as much as a four-fold increase in immune response by switching arms in a multidose vaccine.

News coverage continues on an OHSU study that found as much as a four-fold increase in immune response by switching arms in a multidose vaccine.

In a USA Today story about an OHSU-led “secret shopper”-style study that found residential addiction treatment for adolescents is expensive and scarce nationwide. Ryan Cook, Ph.D., says, “As it stands now, people in this sort of crisis shouldn’t be doing this on their own. They shouldn’t be searching the internet and calling places like we did.”

Mark Pennesi, M.D., Ph.D., presents interim data for a Phase 2 clinical trial that found 63% of trial participants responded to an experimental gene therapy for the blindness-causing condition X-linked retinitis pigmentosa.