OKLAHOMA CITY State Capitol -Representative Darrell Gilbert faces legislative term limits and will soon retire from the Oklahoma House of Representatives, but he will depart with a solid legacy of advancing mental and medical health care and social services issues in the state.
Representative Gilbert, D-Tulsa, began his legislative career twelve years ago when he was [...]
A study by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) shows although rates of prenatal care are generally the same for African American and white women in Oklahoma, one in five African American women face significant barriers beginning prenatal care. These include transportation problems, not being able to get [...]
Technology used in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; allows medical staff to better see tiny veins
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center has recently added the latest technology in vascular imaging, the VeinViewer by Luminetx. The VeinViewer is a revolutionary technology that projects an image of a patient’s veins directly on the [...]
Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW teams with OMRF in battle against cancer
OKLAHOMA CITY - Over the course of a year, the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars rolls pennies, packages pastries and collects funds to donate to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
At its annual fall festival conference last month, the group presented OMRF [...]