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OMRF seeks volunteers for sarcoidosis research

September 22, 2020

To participate or for more information, please contact OMRF’s Sarcoidosis Research Unit at 405-271-2504, 800-605-7447 or sru@omrf.org.

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Protecting Oklahomans From the Virus

New OMRF grant to study Covid-19 in state’s different ethnic populations

Business of Health: Confronting science’s race participation problem

June 14, 2020

On Wednesday, according to an online petition, almost 6,000 scientists shut down their labs, teaching and other activities to protest racism.

Filed Under: On Your Health Tagged With: African-American, black, black lives matter, blacklivematter, column, disparity, Dr. P, hiring, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, practices, Prescott, race, steve

Findings could lead to better outcomes for minority Sjögren’s patients

July 10, 2019

Common symptoms of Sjögren’s syndrome include severe dry eyes and dry mouth, as well as fatigue, arthritis and memory problems.
 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: African-American, american indian, arthritis, autoimmune, black, disease, indian, lupus, minorities, minority, Native American, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, robert, scientist-news, Scofield, Sjogren's

OMRF recruiting volunteers for sarcoidosis research

October 11, 2018

OMRF’s Sarcoidosis Unit, which launched in January, is the only one of its kind in the state.

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OMRF seeks healthy minority participants for one-time blood sample donation

June 7, 2017

The foundation hopes to recruit up to 2,000 healthy individuals.

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