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Physicians’ trust in one another

JAMA Network March 22, 2019
Virginia Tilden, Ph.D. highlights the importance of relationships between physicians of different specialties for safe and quality patient care.

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute throws out old system of clinical trials

OPB March 21, 2019
Profiles of several OHSU physicians, and a patient who has experienced an exceptional response. Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., says: “I came and gave a presentation on how we wanted to change the way we treated cancer. The people here embraced that so thoroughly, that I literally had no choice but to come.”

Monkey birth a step to saving fertility of boys with cancer

Associated Press March 21, 2019
Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh collaborate to create Grady, the first nonhuman primate born from juvenile testicular tissue. “Grady represents an important step toward ensuring that children [at risk of medically induced infertility] maintain their opportunity to have a family later in life,” says Carrie Hanna, Ph.D.
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