Articles tagged with: health
by Danny Marroquin
It was 10 p.m. on a Thursday night. Ice from the latest winter storm was just beginning to thaw, and the damp Tulsa parking garage was lit dimly by florescent bulbs and portable heaters. With doors set to open at 5 a.m. the next morning, already a line of four hundred curled around the yellow tape and metal gates…
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From The Journal Record:
Read the full story »Oklahoma will have so many Alzheimer’s patients by 2025 that there’s a boom in construction of housing for them.
By 2010, about 74,000 Oklahomans will have Alzheimer’s and that number is expected to increase by 30 percent in the next 15 years.
“We are standing on the tracks and a train is coming,” said Mark Fried, executive vice president of the Alzheimer’s Association Oklahoma and Arkansas Chapter. “The statistical trends reveal that Alzheimer’s disease is the public health threat of the 21st century.”
From The Journal Record:
Read the full story »As medical director of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, Keith Smith spends much of his time talking with potential patients concerned about the cost of a needed medical procedure. Many of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma’s patients do not have health insurance and are seeking the best price for their surgery.
“People shop prices,” he said.
So early this year Smith and his partners at the physician-owned facility at 9500 N. Broadway Extension in Oklahoma City decided to make their prices more accessible – the prices for various procedures at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma were posted online.
From NewsOK:
Read the full story »Swine flu is the state’s most immediate health concern, but the virus should not cause Oklahomans to panic, the director of one of Oklahoma’s largest local health departments said Tuesday.
Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Gary Cox said most cases of the virus, also known as H1N1, have been mild in Oklahoma. But Cox also said health authorities are monitoring the virus carefully, especially with the start of the school year.
