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Have a Heart for Mom Bazaar to Benefit Heart Research & Free Heart Screenings

Enjoy this unique shopping experience and get a free heart screening!  Vendors from Handmade NW are once again holding a spring bazaar to benefit the OHSU Heart Research Center.  To provide more variety, different vendors will be on hand each day of this event. 

This year's bazaar will take place from 10 am - 5:30 pm on May 1, 2 and 3 in the OHSU Center for Health & Healing Atrium, 3303 SW Bond Ave., Portland.  

Free heart screenings are available for shoppers as space allows on May 3 from 10 am - 2 pm.

First 1,000 Days After Conception Predict Level of Chronic Disease Later in Life

08/31/11  Portland, Ore.

Hundreds of renowned scientists from around the world will attend the 7th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in Portland, Ore., to present the latest research and consider ways to alter current chronic disease epidemics

How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life

Time Magazine highlighted the pioneering work of David Barker, professor of medicine at OHSU in an October 4, 2010 article by Annie Murphy Paul.   

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2020815,00.html