Getting the annual flu shot is always important. But this year, it might be essential. The SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is surging throughout the state and much of the country, and many health experts are predicting an epidemic-level wave during the fall and winter months, right in the heart of the annual flu season in the U.S. […]
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PRESS RELEASE Experts warn Oklahomans to prevent community spread of virus
With Gov. Kevin Stitt announcing this week that Oklahoma is “critically low” on COVID-19 tests, state health experts say we need to presume that anyone could have the virus – and behave accordingly. “It looks like many infected people, especially younger people, are either barely ill or not really sick at all,” said Oklahoma Medical […]
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Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School gears up to offer a unique education model in 2018
Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School gears up to offer a unique education model in 2018
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Surgeon general’s report sheds light on dangers of e-cigarettes
Consumption among teens and young adults is prevalent and dangerous.
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Obituary: Donald Capra
Oklahoma Gazette remembers local immunologist and president emeritus of OMRF Donald Capra, who died February 24.
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Federal grant helps fund disease research
Photo by Mark Hancock Grant funds will create the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources program, which creates partnerships between the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Native American tribes and physicians across the state. “This gives us access to people and data immediately,” said Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D, an […]
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Brain gain
Jonathan Wren Rheal Towner, who oversees the MRI center, and Jonathan Wren, a computer scientist, have studied and tested genes that can serve as mapping tools to help doctors in the removal of brain tumors and, eventually, in sending drugs directly to the tumors. Towner and Wren, whose mother died of brain cancer when he […]
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On rotation
Piece by piece, 18 helices are being installed on the roof of OMRF’s new research tower to turn Oklahoma wind into energy. The project makes OMRF one of the first entities in the U.S. to receive the helix turbines, and they will stand alone among medical research facilities that receive on-site wind-generated power. All together, […]
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Family affair
At work, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist uses a microscopic worm to learn more about autism. At home, he and his wife, Kathy, have spent the last 17 years raising two sons with autism spectrum disorders, proving nothing comes quickly in science or in autism. “There’s the possibility of a good, positive outcome. But […]