OU Medical Center-Health Matters

It’s an ailment few women want to talk about, so many suffer with it in silence. It’s Stress Urinary Incontinence--a common condition in women often caused by physical changes resulting from pregnancy, childbirth or menopause. Now though, a specialist with OU Physicians says there is help, including a new treatment done right in the doctor’s office that often brings immediate relief.

RSV is a dangerous virus. Early warning signs and prevention tips. Sleep disorders-Stats and warning signs.

Many women fear breast cancer, but few realize that heart disease is actually a greater risk. The fact is heart disease is the number one killer of women in this country. Heart specialists with OU Physicians say perhaps that is why so many women miss the early warning signs or wait to seek medical attention. And both can be fatal mistakes.

Risks for health problems like heart disease, diabetes and some cancers are inherited just like your physical traits.

When a part of your car breaks, you get a replacement part. What if you could do the same for humans? It may sound far-fetched, but it's not. In fact, scientists and physicians have teamed up at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to help find a way to use a patient's own cells to grow new tissue and possibly even new organs to replace missing, diseased or damaged ones.

They're not kids, but teens are not really adults yet either. That has led to a new medical specialty at OU Medical Center. The Pediatric Sleep Lab at The Children's Hospital says sleep deprivation is a common problem for teens.

Ovarian cancer will affect more than 23,000 women in this country this year alone. Nearly 14,000 will die from it. New research at OU Medical Center brings more hope for those affected by advanced ovarian cancer.

The U.S. Surgeon General is encouraging families to focus on their family history. The idea is to learn more about the health history of your family--who had cancer? What did your relatives die of? Does a certain illness seem to run in the family? Genetics experts say plotting the family health history is easy and a great way to help safeguard your health and the health of your loved ones.

Adolescence can be a difficult time for kids and for their parents as well. A teenager's relationships change, emotions change and most of all a teen's body changes. Teens aren't children anymore, but they aren't really adults yet either. That simple fact has led to the emergence of a relatively new medical speciality - Adolescent Medicine.

Experts at the Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center say asthma has reached epidemic proportions in preschool children.

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It kills more people than AIDS, breast cancer and lung cancer combined--325,000 Americans each year. Yet few have heard of it. It's Sudden Cardiac Arrest. It is not a heart attack. And as you are about to learn, what you don't know about it could hurt you.

Every year people flock to the gyms and resolve to lose weight and get in shape. Should weight training be a part of getting in shape for children?

Imagine sweating uncontrollably...even when it's cold outside. It's a medical condition called Hyperhidrosis.------- Have you ever given the wrong medicine or amount? It happens more often than you think.

Imagine what it would be like to know that something is wrong with your child, but no on seems to be able to figure out just what that something is. That was the dilemma facing one Oklahoma couple when their six-year-old daughter began developing unusual symptoms. Then those same symptoms started appearing in the girl's twin sister. Now though, with the help of OU Physicians' Genetics team, they hope their search for answers will soon end. John Mulvihill, MD. Susan Hassad, MS, CGC.