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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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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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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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OSU-CHS adds online mental health resources for students

Thu, Dec 21, 2023

OSU-CHS students now have two new technology-based mental health resources they can utilize through Student Wellness— BetterHelp and Togetherall.

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NCWR takes part in OKDMHSAS' Momentum conference

Wed, Dec 13, 2023

The National Center for Wellness & Recovery was both a sponsor and participant at Momentum: Prevention, Justice, Recovery conference put on by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

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OSU, OU collaboration finds semaglutide treatment associated with reductions in alcohol use disorder symptoms

Mon, Nov 27, 2023

The first published evidence from humans that semaglutide specifically reduces the symptoms of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) has been published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and details a recent collaboration between clinicians and scientists at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine and OSU Center for Health Sciences.

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OSU-CHS awarded $16 million grant to improve health in rural, tribal and urban communities

Tue, Nov 14, 2023

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded OSU Center for Health Sciences a $16 million grant to enhance the school’s recruitment, retention and training programs focused on rural, tribal, and urban and underserved populations in Oklahoma.

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