A statewide coalition launches a campaign to expand Medicaid coverage to uninsured Oklahoma residents.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oklahoma will be in Conference Room 1 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to help people sign up for health insurance.

TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation has donated six prescription drug drop-off boxes to six municipalities as part of a grant that Environmental Programs received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The six boxes will be given to Claremore, Nowata, Pryor, Sallisaw, Tahlequah and Vinita. City officials will place the boxes at a designated location and will be responsible for the collection and disposal of medications. The partnership with local communities in placing the drop-boxes is part of the tribe’s effort in addressing the opioid crisis.

The National Organization for Rare Disorders is a nonprofit organization committed to identifying and treating rare diseases and disorders.

Dr. Roger Montgomery says a recall of three types of Losartan tablets coming from producers in India affects less than 100 Cherokee Nation patients.

TAHLEQUAH – After much preparation and planning by Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma State University officials, the first shovels of dirt were officially turned on May 20 to build a medical school in Tahlequah.

CN and OSU officials broke ground to symbolize the start of construction on the 84,000-square-foot OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at Cherokee Nation.

More than 2,300 Native Americans within the Cherokee Nation died from heart disease from 2011-15.

OKMULGEE (AP) — Health officials in Oklahoma says the state has its first confirmed case of measles in the past 12 months.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health says the case was confirmed in Okmulgee County. The department says the person who fell ill had returned to Oklahoma after traveling both domestically and internationally.

Oklahoma last had a confirmed case of measles in May 2018.

Nationwide, a total of 839 cases of measles were reported as of last week. That's the most since 1994, when 963 were reported for the entire year. The majority of illnesses have been in New York — most of them among unvaccinated people in Orthodox Jewish communities.

Measles was once common in the U.S. but gradually became rare after vaccination campaigns that started in the 1960s.

Gov. Kevin Stitt has expressed openness and skepticism to expanding Medicaid in the past.

Cherokee Nation Public Health offers eight-weeks of smoking cessation classes.

Tribal departments help girls and women afford proper hygienic care during their menstrual cycles.