Photo by James Coburn Dr. Marvel Williamson, dean of nursing at Oklahoma City University hopes nurses will consider the master’s degree program at the Kramer School of Nursing.

Calling all nurses in churches. That’s what Mashell Sourjohn with the American Heart Association is trying to do this week. Actually, she’s calling all nurses who do blood pressure screenings.

Photo by James Coburn Dr. Alan Hollingsworth is medical director of the Women’s Center at Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City says that MRI testing is more reliable than mammography in the early diagnosis of breast cancer

The fifth annual Caregivers Survival Skills seminar will be held June 20 at Mercy Health Center’s Conference Center, 4300 W. Memorial Road, Oklahoma City. The daylong event is jointly sponsored by the Oklahoma department of Human Services Aging Services Division, Mercy at Home and Hospice programs and Areawide Aging Agency, Inc. of Oklahoma City. The one-day event features speakers who bring new perspective to care giving.

by Mike Lee Physical activity and family history are two other risk factors and possibly vasectomy which, in one study, has been shown to slightly increase the risk.

Medicaid Nursing Incentive Act of 2003 would restore a previous federal mandate

Janet L. Moore has been named executive director of the Orthopaedic & Reconstructive Research Foundation. She is responsible for expanding fundraising, community services and educational activities for the Foundation.

Oklahoma State Department of Health officials said today that the state’s native prairie dog population does not harbor monkeypox, a viral disease that has recently been detected in pet prairie dogs distributed through exotic pet market channels in three states.

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION GRANT TAKES EXPERIMENTS TO NEXT LEVEL

LPN proves experience, knowledge nurtures respect