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Be a volunteer in OSU’s Center for Healthy Aging Research

Research volunteers participate through on-line and mailed surveys, interviews, focus groups, and a variety of activities in their homes, the community and on campus at Oregon State University.

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Public Health Research

Study shows abortion does not cause depression or low self-esteem in adolescents

The study conducted is the first to use both depression and low self-esteem as outcomes with a nationally representative sample of adolescents.

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A World Apart: Cultural barriers hamper Portland’s Hmong community in health-care system

PhD student Jennifer Kue is working to understand the barriers that prevent Hmong women from seeking breast and cervical cancer screenings.

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Health Tips Research

What’s Good for the Heart is Good for the Mind

Researchers are discovering the connections between the heart and the brain, showing that cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with better cognitive function.

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Discovery points to new approach for diabetes therapy

Nutrition experts at Oregon State University have essentially “cured” laboratory mice of mild, diet-induced diabetes by stimulating the production of a particular enzyme.

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Nutrition = Healing

“Assisting a PhD student in research was cool,” says Jigna Patel of her project with Lynn Cialdella-Kam and Professor Melinda Manore investigating the causes of menstrual dysfunction in young women.