Oklahoma teen pregnancy still one of highest in nation

Oklahoma teen pregnancy still one of highest in nation

Over the last 25-years, teen pregnancies have dropped overall, but nationally the rate is declining at a faster rate than in Oklahoma. This has kept Oklahoma near the top of the list. Oklahoma is ranked second in the nation — behind Arkansas and ahead of Mississippi,...
An assault on efforts to prevent teenage pregnancy

An assault on efforts to prevent teenage pregnancy

With flimsy justification, and in small type buried in routine documents, the Trump administration has informed 81 local governments and health groups that it will end grants they have received to run teen pregnancy prevention programs, two years before the grants are...
Hunting a killer: sex, drugs and the return of syphilis

Hunting a killer: sex, drugs and the return of syphilis

OKLAHOMA CITY — For months, health officials in this socially conservative state capital have been staggered by a fast-spreading outbreak of a disease that, for nearly two decades, was considered all but extinguished. Syphilis, the deadly sexually transmitted...