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Psychiatrist joins UHS to treat student mental health and addiction issues

Fri, Apr 05, 2024

Oklahoma State University recently welcomed Dr. Kaelyn Lu, the campus's first psychiatrist specializing in mental health and addiction issues, to assist students.

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Joint research study found Native American teens underrepresented in CDC database

Mon, Apr 01, 2024

A team from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation and the University of Oklahoma-University of Tulsa School of Community Medicine studied how teens who self-reported as American Indian/Alaska Natives were reclassified using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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USA BMX athletic trainer excited by opportunities, challenges of new sport

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Luke Akande is one of the first dedicated athletic trainers for BMX, bicycle motocross, the sport where riders race on dirt tracks with jumps and turns that showcase athletes’ speed and style. He recently joined OSU Sports Medicine and works full-time for USA BMX out of the headquarters in Tulsa.

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FC Tulsa names OSU Medicine official sports medicine partner

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

FC Tulsa announced that OSU Medicine would be the organization’s official sports medicine partner for Oklahoma’s premier professional soccer club.

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Biomedical Sciences club brings STEM activities to elementary students

Fri, Mar 22, 2024

Members of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Association at OSU Center for Health Sciences are hoping to spark and nurture an interest in science in elementary-age students through a new outreach program funded through the Full STEM Ahead grant from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

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OSU Medicine to provide staff for McAlester Regional emergency department

Tue, Mar 19, 2024

Board-certified emergency medicine physicians from OSU Medicine will now be working in the emergency department at McAlester Regional Health Center during every shift, every day of the year.

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Love of sports leads to career paths for athletic training students

Wed, Mar 13, 2024

A love of sports is what brought many OSU Center for Health Sciences athletic training students to the program and Kaleigh Hanzlick, Tatum Komlodi and Samantha Renson are no exceptions.

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Student Doctor of the Year always knew medicine was her future

Wed, Feb 28, 2024

Paul Delgado knew she wanted to be a doctor since she was 6 years old. Her drive and passion for medicine and helping people are just some of the reasons she was recently named the 2024 OSU D.O. Student Doctor of the Year.

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CEAT, CHS offer rural community paramedic training

Fri, Feb 16, 2024

Oklahoma State University’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology in collaboration with Center of Health Sciences was awarded a grant from the Masonic Charity Foundation of Oklahoma to help develop the Community Paramedicine Curriculum.

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OSU-CHS student discovers new dinosaur species, publishes findings

Wed, Jan 24, 2024

Atkins-Weltman, an anatomy and vertebrate paleontology Ph.D. student in the School of Biomedical Sciences, was studying a small collection of foot and leg bone fossils of what was believed to be a juvenile Anzu wyliei, but histology tests of the bones determined that it was actually a new species.

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$10.7M NIH grant to fund Oklahoma Center for Microbiome Research

Wed, Jan 24, 2024

The National Institutes of Health awarded Oklahoma State University researchers a $10.7 million grant to fund the Oklahoma Center for Microbiome Research, which will add a critical mass of new investigators and create new cutting-edge research infrastructure for microbiome scientists across the state.

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OSU biomedical professor, medical students publish research into rare blood disease tests

Thu, Jan 18, 2024

Advances are being made in developing new and more versatile tests for the rare, but life-threatening, blood disease TTP thanks to findings recently published by researchers and medical students from OSU Center for Health Sciences.

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