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For a woman who just had a normal mammogram, her physician’s parting words of “see you next year” have become standard. But over the last few months, doctors and patients have been wrapped up in a firestorm of controversy following federal guidelines that disputed their belief in the frequency of mammography screening.

Dozens of employees at state mental health facilities will be laid off by March because of budget cuts, according to a spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have opened a new door toward discovering the role of growth hormones in cognitive decline as people age.

Further cuts to Oklahoma’s mental health budget would be a false economy because the responsibility – and cost – of caring for those who need treatment would simply pass to other state and local agencies, the mental health commissioner has warned.

Over the counter cold-and-flu remedy: $5.99. Trip to the doctor’s office: $20. Extra time to bend your doctor’s ear: $1,500 a year and up. Primary care physicians are increasingly offering exclusivity to those willing to pay for it.

The fight against fat is going high-tech. To get an inside look at eating and exercise habits, scientists are developing wearable wireless sensors to monitor overweight and obese people as they go about their daily lives.

The Oklahoma Poison Control Center will offer an Advanced Hazmat Life Support course on April 22 and 23 to train Oklahoma emergency medical professionals how to provide medical care for victims of hazmat incidents and toxic terrorism.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Southwestern Regional Medical Center in Tulsa has opened a new fitness center.

State health officials say about 10,000 fewer Oklahoma teenagers are smokers and they predict thousands fewer will die from tobacco-related causes.

An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist has helped make an important new finding about the genetic roots of prostate cancer.