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The Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation (OSU-COM at Cherokee Nation) achieved a historic milestone on May 16, 2024, as its inaugural class of 46 medical students graduated. This marks the first graduating class from a tribally affiliated medical school in the United States.
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Pawnee County in northern Oklahoma grapples with a 20% mental illness rate, with patients facing a five-week wait time for appointments as existing facilities struggle to keep up with staffing, necessary treatments and responses.
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Raven Indigenous Capital Partners said it invested $3.2 million in Tribal Diagnostics LLC, an Oklahoma City-based medical diagnostics laboratory serving medical providers in and around Indian Country.
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Alanna Nulph wanted to be a helper when Indigenous people went missing in her region.
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A new program aimed at fighting diabetes in Indian Country is creating real change for participants. The 4D/Apollo Diabetes Prevention Program is designed to transform more than a diet; it’s designed to transform lifestyles.
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President Joe Biden's nominee Patrice H. Kunesh for Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 by a 57-35 vote.
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An Arizona company has won a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for a mental health app that aims to reduce suicide by military veterans on the Navajo Nation.
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In one of her last acts while she was serving as Speaker of the House, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) secured $750,000 for an urban Indian development that will provide housing, healthcare, community gathering space, and social services for the more than 9,000 Native Americans and Alaska Natives living in San Francisco.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A global nonprofit dedicated to creating equitable access to vision services and eyeglasses has launched a new program to service Indian Country.