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Oregon Health & Science University and Salem Health affiliation officially launches

November 10, 2015

Oregon Health & Science University and Salem Health have finalized an agreement to manage their respective clinical services as an integrated health system. The agreement creates OHSU Partners, a joint management company that will officially become operational on Monday, Nov. 16.

What really makes cancer drug ‘super responders’ exceptional survival stories?

November 09, 2015

Reports of “super responders” – patients who do exceptionally well on a cancer treatment –may be driving unfounded assumptions about the effectiveness of the drugs involved, researchers caution.

OHSU statement regarding its investment in health care transformation

November 06, 2015

$50 million surplus note supports participation in health care exchange

Kidney cancer’s genomic drivers revealed

November 04, 2015

A massive search involving cancer researchers across the U.S. and Canada has revealed many of the altered genes and cell signaling pathways that drive a poorly understood form of kidney cancer, primary papillary renal cell carcinoma.

Bay Area Cancer Center first to join OHSU Knight Cancer Network

October 31, 2015

Bay Area Hospital and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute have agreed to launch the first site of the newly formed OHSU Knight Cancer Network at the Bay Area Cancer Center in Coos Bay, Oregon.

Media’s frequent use of superlative terms to describe new cancer drugs questioned by study

October 29, 2015

While most new cancer drugs afford modest benefits, approved drugs or those in development may be heralded as “game changers” or “breakthroughs” in the lay press

Fall, Halloween safety tips from OHSU Doernbecher and the Oregon Poison Center

October 27, 2015

OHSU Doernbecher patients design Nike footwear, apparel to benefit Oregon children’s hospital

October 23, 2015

OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and Nike today unveiled the highly anticipated 2015 Doernbecher Freestyle Collection. An extraordinary partnership between OHSU Doernbecher and Nike, the Doernbecher Freestyle program provides young hospital patients battling life-threatening illnesses the opportunity to make their mark designing one-of-a-kind Nike footwear and apparel that is produced and sold to support the hospital that changed their lives.

‘Exception from informed consent’ study will assess emergency treatment for prolonged seizures

October 15, 2015

Oregon Health & Science University is one of 40 centers across the country participating in an emergency medicine study that aims to save and improve the lives of adults and children 2 years and older whose life-threatening seizures are resistant to standard treatment.

OHSU releases Mole Mapper ResearchKit app to track potential skin cancers

October 14, 2015

Oregon Health & Science University today released an iPhone app designed to advance melanoma research by giving users the ability to accurately measure and monitor moles, and contribute photos of how their potential trouble spots evolve over time.

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