Oklahoma health

Sen. Julia Kirt and Sen. Carri Hicks invited policy and legal groups to a community interim study, highlighting a need to decriminalize HIV through a public health approach.

Data from an annual report outlines an increase in Oklahoma's maternal deaths from 31 per 100,000 live births during the 2019-2021 reporting period to 31.9 per 100,000 from 2020-2022.

A national analysis of abortions during 2020 and the end of 2023 found an uptick in nearly every state with a near-total abortion ban, excluding Texas, Idaho and Oklahoma, which had the steepest decline.

Farming is a demanding job saddled with stressors like increasingly unpredictable weather, rising input costs and changing commodity prices. On top of those issues, producers of color deal with the impacts of racism, which is linked to mental health conditions like depression and PTSD.

Oklahoma’s request to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden Administration from blocking federal family planning money it lost last year was denied Tuesday.

One family is advocating for patient rights at the state capitol to honor the life of their loved one and create change through the legislative process.

Health advocates in Oklahoma are continuing to press for Medicaid expansion.As StateImpact Oklahoma reports, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2012 made the…

Oklahoma has confirmed its first measles case of the year.As Oklahoma Watch reports, the Oklahoma State Department of Health confirmed last week that a…

For the year 2018, three out of the five states in the High Plains Public Radio listening region fell into the bottom half of national rankings when it…

On July 1, the State of Oklahoma increased prices on cigarettes and little cigars. As a result, reports The Norman Transcript, registrations on the…