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Higher Education Chancellor Presents Plan to Meet Workforce Needs During Tour at OU Health Sciences

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Increasing degree completion to strengthen Oklahoma’s workforce pipeline in education, health care and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields continues to be the state system of higher...

OU College of Medicine Professor Earns Prestigious Pancreatology Award

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Min Li, Ph.D., a George Lynn Cross Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Cell Biology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Associate Director for Global Oncology at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center,...

OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center Receives $10 Million Gift to Support Expansion to Tulsa

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center has received a $10 million gift from Jim Norton, his late wife Ronda, and their daughters, Christy Trussell and Leslie Croteau, to support its expansion to the University of...

OU College of Nursing Students Selected as Jonas Scholars

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Jonas Nursing, a leading supporter of doctoral nursing education in the U.S., and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, announced that Caitlin Dressler and Catherine Harris, B.S.-Ph.D. students in the Fran...

OU Faculty Member Co-Leading Innovative National Trial to Advance Lung Cancer Treatment

Friday, December 13, 2024

Raid Aljumaily, M.D., an associate professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, is the national co-leader of the PROSPECT-Lung clinical trial that will evaluate the timing of...

Newly Published Research Shows Effectiveness of Novel Nightmare Therapy for Children

Friday, December 13, 2024

Recently published research from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa shows that a new therapy for children with chronic nightmares reduced the number of nightmares and the distress they caused and...

Drug Dramatically Improves Survival for Children with Common Type of Leukemia

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Six-year-old Bentley’s diagnosis of precursor B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (B-ALL) in 2019 sent his family into a tailspin of worry about what the future would hold for the sweet boy who loved to make...

Clinical Trial of Device Aims to Induce Ovulation in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Physicians at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences in Oklahoma City are leading a national clinical trial to help women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-related infertility who want to become pregnant.

OU College of Allied Health Celebrates Opening of Interprofessional Sonography Laboratory

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

On Friday, the University of Oklahoma College of Allied Health celebrated the opening of its new Interprofessional Sonography Laboratory, an advanced learning space made possible through a 10-year Value Partnership...

OU Nursing Gathers Partners for Certified Nurse Midwife Symposium

Monday, December 2, 2024

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing has partnered with New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing and the George Kaiser Family Foundation to explore strategies to...

OU Researcher Contributes to Study Published in Prestigious New England Journal of Medicine

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Research published Nov. 21 in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates a three-fold reduction in a risky repeat surgery for patients with subdural hematoma, a pooling of blood between the skull...

OU Health Sciences Receives Federal Grant to Recognize Descendants of American Indian POWs Incarcerated at Fort Marion

Monday, November 25, 2024

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to engage with the descendants of American Indian individuals who were incarcerated at Fort Marion in...

Type 1 Diabetes Community Celebrates Research Milestone During National Diabetes Month

Monday, November 25, 2024

More than 250,000 people have learned their risk of developing Type 1 diabetes (T1D) through TrialNet screening. TrialNet and Breakthrough T1D announced the research milestone as part of National Diabetes Month,...

University of Oklahoma Joins National Cancer Institute’s Global Cancer Prevention Effort

Thursday, November 21, 2024

People with HIV tend to use tobacco at more than twice the rate of the general population, and smoking is among the leading causes of illness and death among people with HIV. Additional data from the National Center...

Study Advances Understanding of Metformin Effects on Fetus, Including Future Risks of Obesity and Diabetes

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology demonstrates that when the diabetes drug metformin is given to the mother during pregnancy, fetus growth is restricted, including a slowed...