Ahmad Masri, M.D., discusses the results of a Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the drug patisiran as a potential treatment for the rare heart condition transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis.

Research led by Jonathan Pruneda, Ph.D., establishes a framework to predict the severity and symptoms of a rare and deadly genetic disease that affects about 40 children worldwide, including Raiden Pham, a patient receiving care at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

OHSU School of Nursing students are among 37 Southern Oregon nursing students receiving scholarships from the Ashland Community Health Foundation.

After seven years of work, researchers at Oregon Health and Science University say they’ve discovered a new cause of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.

In a story about challenges facing Oregon nursing schools, Susan Bakewell Sachs, Ph.D., RN, notes OHSU’s 30-30-30 initiative is supporting tuition assistance and more to recruit and retain diverse nursing students, while the school’s Oregon Nursing Education Academy is helping grow the state’s nurse education workforce. She says OHSU is helping build “the workforce of the future. We want to align workforces to mirror society. If we increase the diversity of our students, we want to have faculty to align with that as well."

Marcel Curlin, M.D., address claim that researchers have developed technology to forcibly vaccinate people through airplane ‘chem trails’; he says, "You’re talking about precise doses delivered in the nose compared to spraying it into cubic miles of atmosphere. I don’t even know how that could work. mRNA degrades under ambient conditions and the challenges posed by delivery requirements would be insurmountable. In a standard mRNA vaccine, the vaccine is stored refrigerated, usually shielded from extreme agitation, and delivered in high dose by means that allow effective absorption.”

A study led by Nathalie Huguet, Ph.D., finds about a quarter of low-income older Americans do not have health insurance. Huguet says: "It’s particularly concerning to think of older adults not having health insurance, given that the prevalence of disease and related complications increase with age.”

An OHSU Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute-led study found patients with HIV who are undergoing antiretroviral therapy have a subset of CD4+ T cells that spontaneously express viral RNA.

Keiko Cooley, M.D., discuss the lack of DEI content on urology residency program websites.

A Beaverton woman was brought to OHSU paralyzed, but thanks to emergency spinal surgery she was home and walking within a week.