OMRF looks to digestive system for origins of osteoarthritis

OKLAHOMA CITY –– An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist is looking to the gut in the search for answers about osteoarthritis.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded OMRF physician-scientist Matlock Jeffries, M.D., a two-year, $874,000 grant to launch an innovative study of the origin and progression of OA, the most common form of arthritis. Stemming from the loss of cartilage betw…