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Metro-area scientists receive research award 1 hr ago | Add a comment Two Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists were honored recently with a research award. Kathy Moser and Patrick Gaffney received the Merrick Award for Outstanding Research. Established in...

Oklahoma City dietitian gives tips for healthier eating 1 hr ago | Add a comment Resolving to eat better in the new year is one thing. The next step is to learn the basics of good nutrition so you can make the wise food choices to improve your health, a metro-area dietitian...

IN BRIEF: Discussion of men's health 1 hr ago | Add a comment Discussion of men’s health Men’s health will be the topic of "Simple Choices,” a discussion at Edmond Senior Center, 2733 Marilyn Williams Drive. Dr. Justin Sparks with...

New teaching aid might be calling 3 hr ago | Add a comment DETROIT — Cell phones have become unwelcome in most schools, because of fears about cheating, distractions and the reality that some students have used them to take and spread inappropriate...

Strike yoga pose, reduce stress 3 hr ago | Add a comment DALLAS — When hyperventilating seems the only option to stress, Petri Brill has a healthier suggestion: yoga. Yoga is not just a practice of poses, but also involves proper breathing, said...

FIT FOR YOU: Effort promotes cervical health 3 hr ago | Add a comment Effort promotes cervical health More than 10,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, and about 3,900 women die from it. In the 1950s, cervical cancer was the...

Oklahoma officials warn of horse disease 5 hr ago | Add a comment State agriculture officials are warning horse breeders in the state of a rare and contagious disease that can cause infertility in mares. Spokesman Jack Carson says Contagious Equine Metritis has...

OSU professor: Dogs could help diabetes studies 11 hr ago | Add a comment STILLWATER — Alaskan sled-dogs are among nature’s finest athletes. But they also may be key in finding ways to prevent and treat obesity and type-2 diabetes. The dogs could help solve...

Napkin drawings for Tulsa kids end up inspiring many Yesterday | Add a comment TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Chelsea Coleman knew what to expect from her lunch just about every day in school. The teen's father, Marty, often packed her a turkey and cheese sandwich on wheat bread, a...

Museum plan gains IRS status Yesterday | Add a comment NORMAN Museum plan weathers IRS A group of academic researchers and officials in government and private industry has taken an important step in making the dream of a national weather museum in...

Seminar at Woodward Regional Hospital can help you stop smoking Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment WOODWARD — It’s a new year and time for resolutions. If you are one of the many who have resolved to stop smoking this year, the Woodward Regional Hospital and Apogee Physicians want to...

2 experts to autopsy Travolta’s teenager Sat, Jan 3, 2009 The Bahamas will use two pathologists to ensure a careful autopsy on John Travolta’s son, who died at the actor’s vacation home in Grand Bahama, the territory’s health minister...

BACKGROUND: Tulsa woman has worked at rehab Sat, Jan 3, 2009 Woman has worked at rehab Tulsan Nancy Gail Rueb, above, charged in November with two DUI-related manslaughter complaints, has faced a DUI charge in the past. In 2002, Rueb received a DUI charge...

Conn. man's last lotto ticket wins $10M for widow Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family. Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at...

Cutting mosquito life stops disease Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment WASHINGTON — Old mosquitoes usually spread disease, so Australian researchers figured out a way to make the pests die younger — naturally, not poisoned. Scientists have been racing to...

Surgery reverses diabetes in teens Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment NEW YORK — Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study. All but one of the 11 extremely obese teens studied saw their diabetes...

Critics urge manual to be open book Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment CHICAGO — Whether revisions to the "bible” of mental illness should be carried out in secret might seem like an academic question. But the issue carries weight for citizens...

Patients’ muses get an outlet Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment HOUSTON — Just down the hall from the chemo infusion rooms at Texas Children’s Hospital, Jalen Huckabay was about to slip into another world, away from the regimen of pokes, prods and...

Tiger attack victim asked to pay $75K Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment SAN FRANCISCO — Officials want a survivor of a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo to reimburse the city more than $75,000 for his medical treatment and are asking that the money come out...

New heart offers new hope for Enid patient in ’09 Fri, Jan 2, 2009 | Add a comment While some were celebrating the new year at parties and with fine meals, Karen Spaeth was getting a new heart. Spaeth, 50, of Enid was wheeled into surgery at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday...