Gavin Day struggles daily with the rare disorder FG1 syndrome, an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder that causes learning difficulties, weak muscle tone and other problems.

The Tahlequah-based Cherokee Nation Outpatient Health Care facility is expected to fill the job vacancies during the next several years.

All five Indian Health Service hospitals that were reviewed had patients who were given opioids in amounts exceeding federal guidelines.

Tick-borne diseases can be dangerous, causing everything from a food allergy to red meat to miscarriage to death.

This fall the tribe will also open its 469,000-square-foot outpatient health center on the W.W. Hastings Hospital campus.

The opioid prescription rate for Cherokee County was 21 percent higher than the state rate.

BRIGGS – Twin Pines Ranch has been selected by Cherokee Nation One Fire Victims Services to conduct Equine Therapy Classes for their clients.

The classes are funded through federal Victims of Crimes Act funds that were awarded in October 2018. The act is a federal law that provides funds in support of a variety of services and activities that assist victims of crime. Equine therapy classes are normally held more in the spring and summer months when weather conditions are more suited for riding.

They are to gather information on what the public knows about the human papillomavirus and to further relay information about its vaccination.

The project is expected to increase the number of Cherokee Nation patients who have been screened for HIV.

Oklahoma voters approved a medical marijuana measure in June 2018, and the industry has taken off quickly.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – A proposal for a behavioral health campus in Lawrence will proceed, after a survey of the site requested by the Delaware Tribe found no archaeological or human remains.

The tribe asked for the survey earlier this year to ensure no historical tribal artifacts or burial sites remained on the land where tribal members once lived.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the Kansas Historical Society completed the survey on the 1-acre site this spring. Surveyors found no significant cultural resources.

Brice Obermeyer, director of the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office, says if the survey didn’t find any artifacts, the tribe supports the new Douglas County behavioral health campus.

The project would include a 10-unit housing complex located near a mental health crisis center and a supportive group home.