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Medical students and mentors thrill in the magic of Match Day

By Erin Hoover Barnett March 17, 2017

Over 100 OHSU School of Medicine students took part in Match Day, where they learned where they would spend the next 5 to 7 years of their lives in residency training,

Fates of soon-to-be physicians revealed during Match Day ceremony

By Tracy Brawley March 16, 2017

Over 100 students from the OHSU School of Medicine class of 2017 will participate in Match Day on Friday, a highly anticipated annual event in which the results from the National Resident Matching Program are released simultaneously to thousands of medical students across the country.

Keeping the roads to OHSU open is a year-round endeavor

By Kristyna Wentz-Graff March 16, 2017

OHSU's new Road Crew, a 15-person snow removal team organized in January 2016, helped keep Marquam Hill accessible throughout this winter's worst storms.

Care received at end of life varies drastically by state

By Ariane Le Chevallier March 15, 2017

Oregonians with serious illness or frailty are more likely to have their end-of-life care wishes honored, less likely to be hospitalized, and more likely to use home hospice services than the rest of the country.

Public forum to reveal link between zip codes and health

By Tracy Brawley March 14, 2017

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health presents the third in their community lecture series, looking at how where you live can impact how you live.

OHSU Intercultural Psychiatric Program: serving immigrants, refugees for 40 years

By Erik Robinson March 14, 2017

A unique OHSU psychiatric program supports immigrants and refugees, serving approximately 1,100 people in the Portland area, including 200 survivors of torture from countries including Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia, Bosnia and Syria.

The critical role of nonhuman primates in medical research

By Nancy Haigwood March 13, 2017

Research with nonhuman primates, or NHPs – monkeys for the most part – has led to critical health advances that have saved or improved millions of human lives.

OHSU Doernbecher provides tips for transitioning kids to daylight saving time

March 10, 2017

OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital shares tips for helping children transition to daylight saving time smoothly.

Researchers hone in on when, where Zika virus attacks

By Ariane Le Chevallier March 09, 2017

The Zika virus attacks tissues in the nervous system, male and female reproductive and urinary tracts, muscles, joints and lymph nodes, and persists for at least 35 days, according to a study conducted in a nonhuman primate model by a multidisciplinary team of researchers at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.

New England Journal of Medicine publishes long-term results of Gleevec® for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia

By Amanda Gibbs March 08, 2017

Study followed 1,106 patients around the world for more than 10 years.

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