Each year, flu season leads to hundreds of thousands of illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 2010, between 9.3 million and 49 million people worldwide are affected by the flu each year. […]
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To faculty in DMU’s College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery (CPMS) and on-campus Foot and Ankle Clinic, “lifelong learning” is not an empty phrase. It’s what they practice and emphasize among their students. A recent example is an advanced surgical
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Are you getting ready to re-up your running program now that winter is turning to spring? Or are you thinking of starting one? For many people, that’s a great idea. Running is an inexpensive, accessible form of exercise with great
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As students and parents in Iowa look forward to this back-to-school season, they should be aware that beginning in January 2017, state law now requires all incoming seventh-grade students be vaccinated for meningitis. Students entering 12th grade are required to
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Bret Ripley, D.O., FACOFP, FPLI, chair of family and internal medicine and a DMU family medicine clinician, received the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association’s Physician of the Year Award during the annual IOMA meeting in May. He was nominated by multiple
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If you are committed to getting or staying fit, a great tool to help you achieve that goal is the composition analysis service of DMU Clinic Radiology. This service gives users eye-opening information about their bodies, including their ratio of
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Pelvic pain during pregnancy is a common occurrence. Approximately 20 percent of women have pelvic girdle pain at some point during their pregnancy. Pelvic pain is most frequently located in the front over the pubic bone, below the stomach or
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DMU students love to pursue volunteer opportunities that tap their clinical skills. Yet the need for appropriate oversight and documentation can create barriers for community medicine projects. So when Kristin Randa, D.O.’18, proposed on-campus training with Prevent Blindness Iowa, the partnership
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Kari Nies Smith, P.T., D.P.T., BCB-PMD, received the DMU’s Outstanding Faculty Service Award on Aug. 12. She and her son Carter also won in their age groups at the five-kilometer Run DMU on Sept. 11. She is associate professor of
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Noreen O’Shea, D.O.’84, FAAFP, readily admits she was “scared” about joining the DMU family medicine program in March 2014, but in the time since she’s aptly applied the wisdom of Lucille Ball to “face your fear and it will disappear.”
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