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On Your Health

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation President Andrew Weyrich, Ph.D., and Senior Vice President & General Counsel Adam Cohen pen On Your Health. Get the column delivered to your inbox at least once per month — sign up here.


03/05/23

A retirement well earned

01/22/23

With gene-editing technology, the possibilities are staggering

01/01/23

Healthy resolutions that won’t fall short

12/25/22

What medical research has to say about Santa

11/13/22

Is 50 the new 30?

09/25/22

A year older, a year better

08/21/22

Empowering patients – and avoiding ‘medical gaslighting’

07/24/22

For Alzheimer’s, drugs may not be the answer

06/26/22

When death teaches us about life

05/29/22

The giver who keeps on giving

04/17/22

Has the pandemic changed anything?

03/27/22

An Unexpected Pandemic Bounty

02/27/22

When a rare disease strikes close to home

02/20/22

When the Super Bowl is about more than football

01/16/22

When state rankings don’t tell the whole story

01/09/22

I will not be doing my own research

01/02/22

A Covid Kind of Holiday

12/26/21

It’s a Wonderful OMRF Life

12/20/21

Lessons from an awkward family photo

12/12/21

Meet my mother

12/05/21

Where’s my coach?

11/29/21

A good death

11/21/21

Finding gratitude in loss

11/14/21

The limits of smart health technology

11/07/21

How a pandemic fades into the background

10/31/21

A Halloween welcome

10/24/21

From pandemic to endemic

10/18/21

Gone phishing

10/10/21

Finding light in dark places

10/10/21

Holding onto the precious gift of health

10/03/21

A nation of innovators and cranks

09/26/21

Searching for answers with a third-dose trial

09/19/21

What makes OMRF special

09/12/21

An aging parent, a spiral of self-neglect

09/05/21

Pandemic lessons in flexibility

08/29/21

Celebrating 75 years of discovery

08/22/21

A column that has nothing to do with health and medicine

08/15/21

For OMRF summer scholars, patience is a virtue

08/08/21

A letter to the coronavirus

08/01/21

The Olympics and the limits of human performance

07/25/21

Making sense of U.S. life expectancy dip

07/18/21

Health news that makes you go hmmm….

07/11/21

Marijuana, Olympic doping bans, and science

07/04/21

The curious case of Bin Kang

06/27/21

The Big Quit

06/20/21

Will new Alzheimer’s drug deliver more than profits?

06/13/21

A temperature check for employee wellness programs

06/06/21

Remembering Dr. Steve Prescott, my mentor

05/30/21

An Experiment of One

05/23/21

The day my spit cup disappeared

05/16/21

Changing the complexion of science

05/09/21

Have I got a deal for you…

05/02/21

Have we learned anything from the pandemic?

04/25/21

Marking a milestone at OMRF – and in Oklahoma

04/18/21

How do you reopen a country?

04/11/21

Staying true to the vision of Lloyd Noble

04/04/21

With new grant, OMRF researcher comes full circle

03/28/21

Back to School

03/21/21

Should employers require workers to get vaccinated?

03/14/21

My life as a vaccine guinea pig, continued

03/07/21

Covid-19: Four things we’re thinking about now

02/28/21

When can we expect herd immunity?

02/21/21

It’s open season for vaccine hunting

02/14/21

Vaccination lessons from a fast-food restaurant (hold the fries)

02/07/21

In nonprofit leadership, change isn’t always good

01/31/21

Who was that (kind of) masked man?

01/24/21

Will Covid-19 vaccines spawn lawsuits?

01/17/21

My life as a vaccine guinea pig, part III

01/10/21

Dr. Fauci, Scientific Superstar

01/03/21

Can big pharma save us all?

12/27/20

Goodbye, 2020

12/20/20

If you’re on Santa’s Covid-19 naughty list, you have company

12/13/20

When it comes to the virus, we are all consistently inconsistent

12/06/20

Why are we still wiping down surfaces?

11/29/20

Thanksgiving, against all odds

11/22/20

A tale of two vaccines

11/15/20

Five reasons to be excited about vaccine news

11/08/20

An Alzheimer’s breakthrough at long last?

11/01/20

Why we want our workforce to vote

10/24/20

Can testing provide a way forward?

10/17/20

When will we return to the workplace as we knew it?

10/10/20

My life as a vaccine guinea pig, part II

10/04/20

5 things we still don’t know about Covid-19

09/26/20

5 things we’ve learned so far about Covid-19

09/20/20

For some, pandemic yields an unexpected bounty: savings

09/14/20

Lies, damned lies and virus statistics

09/06/20

Can exercise save us from the virus?

08/30/20

Becoming a coronavirus vaccine guinea pig

08/23/20

Living with cancer in the age of Covid-19

08/16/20

Business of Health: What tornadoes can teach us about Covid-19

08/10/20

Business of Health: Giving it the old college try

08/03/20

Business of Health: The virus is making us all uncomfortable

07/27/20

Business of Health: How the virus is remaking the American workplace

07/20/20

Business of Health: Modern ‘Anti-Mask League’ totally misses the point

07/06/20

Business of Health: How the virus is aging us

06/29/20

Business of Health: A tale of two antibody tests

06/21/20

Business of Health: Is Oklahoma poised for a new viral surge?

06/14/20

Business of Health: Confronting science’s race participation problem

06/08/20

Business of Health: On the road again?

05/31/20

Business of Health: The bounty of an unexpected gift

05/24/20

Business of Health: Virus looms large over higher education

05/17/20

Business of Health: How will this all end?

05/10/20

Business of Health: Finding our way to the new normal

05/03/20

Business of Health: Coronavirus news (and another thing) that made me happy this week

04/27/20

Business of Health: Just how deadly is the coronavirus?

04/19/20

Business of Health: This is why we need clinical trials

04/12/20

A life behind the coronavirus numbers

04/05/20

The hermit and the coronavirus

04/05/20

The hermit and the coronavirus

03/22/20

Business of Health: COVID-19 shrinks OMRF workforce to skeleton crew

03/16/20

Dr. Prescott: What does and doesn’t work against the coronavirus?

03/08/20

Business of Health: Do presidential candidates owe us their medical records?

02/23/20

Business of Health: Teaching an old drug new tricks

02/16/20

Business of Health: Rush Limbaugh’s illness puts spotlight on lung cancer

02/09/20

Business of Health: Wuhan coronavirus and the history of quarantines

02/02/20

Business of Health: The New Old Age

01/26/20

Business of Health: China acts to stop spread of respiratory virus

01/19/20

Business of Health: Drug prices are moving onward and upward

01/12/20

Business of Health: Pet coverage has insurers wagging their tails

01/05/20

Business of Health: A year of medical advances – but no jetpack

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