The seven-day average of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma has fallen below 1,000 for the first time since late July, according to the Oklahoma St…
Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day and it is a good time to take stock of what you’re doing to reduce your environmental impact. Every effort cou…
Not everyone can sing like a nightingale. When some of us try to carry a tune, we sound like Bob Dylan imitating Elmer Fudd.
Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by w…
Eligible cities and towns in Oklahoma are invited to apply for the state’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Healthy Incentive Grants startin…
Cherokee Nation leaders on Oct. 19 announced plans to build a multi-million dollar, 50,000-square-foot wellness center in Adair County as part…
Daylight Saving Time ends Nov. 7, and if you are already dreading the adjustment, you are not alone. The physical and mental effects are real,…
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, a nonprofit clinic providing health and wellness services to American Indians in central Oklahoma, is promoti…
NEW YORK (AP) – Food companies are coming under renewed pressure to use less salt after U.S. regulators spelled out long-awaited guidelines ai…
Cherokee Nation Health Services Executive Director Dr. Stephen R. Jones told tribal legislators during the Oct. 12 Health Committee meeting th…
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, a nonprofit clinic providing health and wellness services to American Indians in central Oklahoma, wants to p…
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses in 2020, including local gyms, Cherokee Nation citizen Damon Ford said he had to find a way to co…
Pfizer asked the U.S. government on Oct. 7 to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 – and if regulators agree, shots coul…
Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. government mo…
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Drugmaker Merck said Oct. 1 that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with t…
Amid all the focus on COVID-19 vaccinations, U.S. health experts have another plea: Don’t skip your flu shot.
For some people, the subject of hunger conjures up tragic images of starving people with swollen bellies in blighted, desolate parts of the world.
Exercise may help reduce symptoms of a common sleep disorder and improve brain function, a small study finds.
The Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences was recently awarded two grants t…
Shape Your Future, a program of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, is encouraging students, families, communities and schools ac…
Pfizer has started testing its potential COVID-19 treatment as a preventive medicine aimed at warding off the virus if a close contact gets it.
The pandemic has made it clearer than ever – maintaining good health is critical, and it all starts with having a health plan that works for y…
With the continued spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, Cherokee Nation Health Services officials are seeing an increase in cases and hospita…
COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did – approximately 675,000. And like the worldwide scourg…
Cherokee Nation Health Services will offer drive-thru flu vaccination clinics at all of its health center locations, excluding the Gadugi Empl…
Cherokee Nation leaders say the tribe’s fledgling face mask-making operations in Hulbert and Stilwell not only fill a community demand, but al…
A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.
When COVID-19 hit the Cherokee Nation in 2020, the most vulnerable to the virus included fluent Cherokee speakers.