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OU Hosts Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Showcases Statewide Health Efforts

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, visited the OU Health Campus on Saturday, Aug. 1 to learn more about the University of Oklahoma’s flagship academic health...

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Researchers Discover How Tumors Enlist Nerves to Keep Growing

New research from the University of Oklahoma demonstrates how an aggressive form of breast cancer co-opts the body’s own immune system to attract nerves that fuel tumor growth.

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OU Hosts Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Showcases Statewide Health Efforts

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, visited the OU Health Campus on Saturday, Aug. 1 to learn more about the University of Oklahoma’s flagship...
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OU Researcher Joins $12 Million Effort to Advance Obesity Drug Discovery

A University of Oklahoma researcher is part of an international team developing a new way to discover obesity drugs using human cells instead of animal models, an approach that could speed the...
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Researchers Discover Hidden ‘Recycling System’ That Helps Keep Vision Cells Healthy

For decades, scientists believed that photoreceptors in the retina relied primarily on neighboring support cells, known as the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), to remove waste. While the RPE is...
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Human Study Links Reduced Inflammation to Later Myopia Onset

University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researcher Jody Summers, Ph.D., has long hypothesized that inflammation plays a role in the development of myopia, or nearsightedness, in which close-up...
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NIH Awards OU College of Medicine $10.7 Million to Advance Sensory Biology Research

The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create the Oklahoma Center for Biomedical Research...
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