“In front of the elbow” in Latin. The hollow in the crook of your arm in front of the elbow, with its easily accessible veins, is frequently used to insert a needle to draw blood. The cubit, an archaic unit […]
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First- and second-year D.O. students were involved in a volunteer disaster relief training on September 26. The American Red Cross took 440 students — the largest group trained in the United States this year — through a tabletop exercise with disaster situations
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One-third of American adults have a dangerous condition that is so hard to detect that 20 percent of those who have it don’t even know it. Known as the “silent killer,” hypertension causes the heart to work harder than it
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Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. An estimated 293,000 U.S. children are at risk of being exploited and trafficked. Des Moines University is holding a series of
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As a young man in Battle Creek, MI, James Haffenden bought stock in a company because a neighbor was then its chief executive officer. Several decades later, he attended a DMU-sponsored session on planned giving techniques, held in conjunction with
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The fat pad over the pubic area of females is currently termed the mons pubis (pubic mountain-Latin). An older term, the mons veneris (the mountain of Venus) referred to the Roman Goddess of Love, also known as Aphrodite in Greek
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Brooke Johnson and her husband, Brandon Wright, welcomed daughter Palmer Nicole on May 17, 2014. She joins big sister Addison.
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Rachael Sokol, her husband, Dave, and their daughter, Kaleigh, welcomed son/brother Kolton Robert on May 3, 2014. The family reports everyone is doing well.
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The Office of Clinical Affairs is proud to report that the DO Class of 2014 had a residency match rate of 100 percent. This is the first-time (in over six years) that there has been a 100 percent match rate.
