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      <title><![CDATA[Vital Signs | OSU Medical Center embracing organizational change]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To describe the importance of OSU Medical Center to the Tulsa health care network, one number illustrates its vital role.

Emergency room visits totaled around 45,000 last year, according to Howard Barnett, president of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa and OSU-Center for Health Sciences.

Other hospi... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Health Needs | Insurance only part of the struggle]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: A month into our look at health care and 3.6 million Americans -- most living below the poverty line -- are looking down the barrel of being denied health care when Gov. Fallin takes it upon herself to opt out of the Affordable Care Act. So when UTW uses the term "Medicaid crisis," we... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Health &amp; Fitness Feature | Getting Ready to RumbleBikers unite to grant wishes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whenever the term "biker" is thrown around, the first thing that comes to mind is often a big, bearded guy with a bad attitude wearing shades, a bandana strapped across his head, and a leather jacket with some kind of insect, animal, or skull etched on the back. This is, of course, a notoriously ste... By Antoine Wilson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Healthy Alternatives | City facilities offer fitness choices]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsa is really getting into health and fitness. Who knew? If you're the kind that pays attention to the national shaming of Oklahoma that is the national data on obesity, that might be hard to believe.

According to the Center for Disease Control, Oklahoma is the sixth-worst state for obes... By Antoine Wilson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Vape This | E-cigarettes now commonplace]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[You've seen them, and you've seen a couple of different versions of them. There's the electronic cigarette that looks like an actual cigarette, complete with a battery-powered orange glow coming from the end of it. Then there's the giant nicotine vaporizer that looks like it's actually a duck call,... By Bradley Morris.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Taste of Class | Even you can conquer the kitchen]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To some, the kitchen can be a place of mayhem, where obligation and expectation are the main ingredients. To others the kitchen is a place of sanctuary, where the stresses of the day can be sliced and diced away, and the taste of gratification is palpable. There are those individuals that live for t... By Angela Evans.]]></description>
      <category>Featured Sections/Health and Fitness</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[No, Seriously, Eat Your Veggies | An irrational conversation worth having]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What happens when the people of a nation in crisis divide themselves into two equal parts, both equally well-funded, and both equally staunch in their beliefs?

Nothing.

In spite of every effort we have given our growing healthcare crisis, we've still got one. At some point, it started with someone... By Monica Dewart.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Breast Cancer in OK | Fiscal stress fuels physiological misfortune]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With Breast Cancer Awareness Month well behind us, Tulsans unaffected byt the trauma of losing a loved one or fighting cancer themselves may be tempted to extnguish the fire which had burned so bright and pink last October.

However, with breast cancer rates in Oklahoma three points above the nation... By Mariah Harnish.]]></description>
      <category>Featured Sections/Health and Fitness</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Program aims to aid addicts | Clients can keep jobs while getting assistance]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The CDIOP Opiate Program at Parkside Psychiatric Hospital, 1228 S. Trenton Ave., aims to help people addicted to prescription painkillers such as Xanax, OxyContin, and Vicodin, as well as more serious opiates like heroin.

Parkside has been a mainstay in Tulsa since 1959. It is the only local psychi... By Charles D Beard.]]></description>
      <category>Featured Sections/Health and Fitness</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[COOL RUNNIN'S | The season's runs and walks for fitness and fun]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photos courtesy of Fleet Feet Sports Tulsa

With hundreds of miles of runs planned in the metro for November and December, there may be a few sore muscles thrown into this season's holiday mix. But never fear, Tulsa -- a little hair of that ever-so-fit dog that bit will bring back the smiles -- so k... By Mariah Harnish.]]></description>
      <category>Featured Sections/Health and Fitness</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Nature of the Cure | Local businesses help consumers find healthy choices]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oklahoma has seen a marked boom in the past decade in its health food options, but whether or not this increase in will have staying power has yet to be seen. With the success of businesses such as Whole Foods Market in Brookside, which will soon open another location in south Tulsa, other chains ar... By Mariah Harnish.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The New Fit | Sport brings an alternative to fitness training]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The fitness scene is constantly changing. Cardio fads, spinning classes, twenty-minute gimmicks -- it can almost drive a person insane wondering where to start. And our time is stretched too. Often, personal health can be low on the list of daily concerns. So what is there to do when time is of the... By Mariah Harnish.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Ancient Art | Local gyms aid the development of young athletes for gymnastics and for life]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As London and the rest of the world enjoys the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, thousands of kids across the nation are signing up and sticking with games, classes and competitions all their own.

With a proven connection between movement and learning, gymnastics provides serious fun and serious power.

I... By Jessica Render.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[One Man's Journey | Portico Dans Theatre goes bold]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA["There's nothing that makes this guy any more special than anyone else. This guy is you. This guy is me," said Portico Dans Theatre Co-Artistic Director Michael Lopez of the main character in BorN, the company's new multimedia contemporary dance production, premiering at SummerStage July 13-14.

"He... By ALICIA CHESSER.]]></description>
      <category>Featured Sections/Health and Fitness</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Straight From the Heart | Ashley Patty's health advocacy is reinforced by experience]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a busy day with her family, Ashley Patty decided she wanted to take a run. She headed out to the local fitness center and started to pace herself at the treadmill. All was fine; it was another day, another workout and another breath -- until suddenly everything changed.

Growing up, Patty went... By Andrea Mayes.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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