Health and Wellness

No More Pain: Study Evaluates No-Pain Exercise To Help Peripheral Artery Disease Patients

A researcher with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging — more than $2.4 million over five years — to study the efficacy of a new painless exercise protocol to treat the symptoms of PAD and ultimately increase patients overall physical activity. The research effort is led by Andrew Gardner, Ph.D., a professor in the cardiovascular section of the OU College of Medicine.

Multidisciplinary Research Team Creates Computational Models to Predict Heart Valve Leakage in Children

An innovative new field of research holds the promise for pediatric cardiologists and heart surgeons to predict the future structural integrity of a child’s heart valves so they can perform the best possible surgery today.

Researchers Discover Cell ‘Crosstalk’ That Triggers Cancer Cachexia

New research from the University of Oklahoma reveals a previously unknown chain of events sparking the development of cancer cachexia, a debilitating muscle-wasting condition that almost always occurs in people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The research, led by Min Li, Ph.D., a professor in the OU College of Medicine, is published in the journal Cancer Cell.