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By April Marciszewski, Tulsa World, Okla. Aug. 3--It's about caring for the entire community, not just individual patients. It's about harnessing the altruism of first-year medical and physician assistant students before the hard work of school wears them down. It's about walking down the street from a hospital, as University of Oklahoma-Tulsa President Dr. Gerry Clancy did almost 15 years ago in Iowa, and taking medical care to a homeless shelter full of people with mental illnesses....
When competitors are around, male Atlantic mollies try to hide their top mate choice, reveals a new study published online on July 31st in Current Biology, a Cell Press journal.They feign disinterest in females after onlookers enter the scene. What's more, after encountering a rival, the tricky males direct their first sexual advances toward females that really aren't their first pick. Male mollies are known to copy other males' mate choices, the researchers noted."I find it...
Dr. Hakki Refai, Award-Winning University of Oklahoma Research Scientist, to Focus Exclusively on the Accelerating Development and Commercialization of 3DIcon's Technologies 3DIcon Corporation Investor Relations Dilek Mir, 310-591-5619 Logo: http://www.3dicon.net 3DIcon Corporation (OTCBB: TDCP), a development-stage technology company, today announced that Dr. Hakki Refai, the researcher whose discoveries led to the development of CSpace(TM) and Pixel Precision(TM) under 3DIcon's...
By Rachael Van Horn, The Woodward News, Okla. Jul. 16--A new program that allows adults whose college years were interrupted by life changes to enroll and complete their degrees is being offered by Northwestern Oklahoma State University and seven other accredited Oklahoma schools. It is a program that closes the loop for working adults who have, perhaps missed opportunities for better career opportunities simply because of the lack of a degree, according to Northwestern State University of...
By Kim Archer, Tulsa World, Okla. Jul. 15--Jacqueline Wilson squeezed her friend's hand as Dr. Nora Doyle prepared to push the needle into her belly. "We're trying to find a place where there's no baby," the doctor said, watching the baby wiggle on the ultrasound monitor. "It takes longer to plan our trip than it does to take the trip." Doyle pushed the needle and began to draw the clear, yellow liquid from the sac surrounding Wilson's fetus. At two months pregnant, Wilson said she began to...
By James S. Tyree, The Oklahoman Jul. 9--NORMAN -- The K20 Center at the University of Oklahoma will use a federal grant of nearly $2.8 million to help thousands of disadvantaged middle-school students prepare for college. The OU center is one of only 24 entities nationwide -- out of 283 applicants -- to receive a GEAR UP grant. The acronym stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, and the 24 grants totaled more than $41.5 million. The grant is...
The Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been selected as a site for the VA Nursing Academy. Under this new program, the Oklahoma City VA center will partner with the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing to provide clinical and didactic training to an additional 20 baccalaureate nursing students each year. A five-year, $40 million pilot program will establish partnerships with 12 nursing schools across the country, which began during the 2007-2008 academic year. The...
Warm moist air and a shifting weather pattern courtesy of the La Nina phenomenon aided in the development of the Feb. 5 tornadoes, which killed at least 50 people and were among the 15th deadliest in U.S. recorded history. But meteorologists are now trying to explain why the tornadoes occurred so early in the year.It was farther north than most February tornadoes and stronger, Joseph Schaefer, director of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., told Associated Press.Tornadoes do occur...
Copernicus Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that a research team at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, led by Dr. Muna Naash, Professor of Cell Biology, demonstrated that Copernicus' DNA nanoparticles corrected vision defects in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). These findings were presented at the American Society of Gene Therapy meeting in Seattle, WA. Mutations in genes important in the biology of vision cause RP, a common genetic form of visual impairment...
By Jim Killackey, The Daily Oklahoman Apr. 29--Wanting to help infertile couples and needing some cash, a University of Oklahoma junior recently traveled to the Tulsa Fertility Center, spent less than an hour in the final phase of donating her fertile eggs and walked out the door with $5,500. Women who donate their eggs can be compensated with thousands of dollars at fertility clinics in such cities as Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Dallas. Numbers are increasing from year to year at many...
