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Bodywork: Understanding a Covid antiviral treatment

June 14, 2022

Several people I know who’ve recently come down with Covid-19 have been treated with a drug called Paxlovid. How effective is it, and are there any downsides?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: antiviral, covid-19, drug, McEver, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news, virus

State’s namesake musical benefits medical research

June 7, 2022

For more than 40 years, OMRF has received a cut from each ticket sold.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: broadway play, lynn riggs, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, Rodgers and Hammerstein, William Edgar Riggs

Gone phishing

October 18, 2021

I guess I’d finally made it. Scammers were now impersonating me, trying to use my status in the organization to prod our accounting folks to cut them a bogus check.

Filed Under: On Your Health Tagged With: computer, cybercrime, email, identity theft, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF

Holding onto the precious gift of health

October 10, 2021

When I was a kid, I spent countless hours swimming. At the township pool. In the lake behind the yellow house we rented each summer in New Hampshire. Or on Long Island Sound, where we’d pack lunches and head to the beach during visits to my grandparents. After tiring of trying to keep myself afloat, […]

Filed Under: On Your Health Tagged With: marathon, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, running

Bodywork: When can we expect Covid vaccines for kids?

October 5, 2021

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Covid-19 vaccines for adults and for children and teens 12 and up. What’s taking so long for younger kids?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, McEver, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news

Bodywork: Do pain relievers make vaccines less effective?

September 28, 2021

After my Covid-19 vaccination, the pharmacist recommended I take ibuprofen if my arm was sore the next day. Do nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen interfere with the body’s immune response to vaccination?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: coronavirus, covid, covid-19, McEver, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news, vaccine, virus

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