No longer are patients waiting in waiting rooms, holding doors open, and shaking hands with their health care providers. Health care is no different than any other industry, and rapid changes have occurred in how patients are seen since the […]
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With the current situation regarding COVID-19, schools are closed and extracurricular activities are cancelled, but this doesn’t mean we can’t find ways to encourage our children and teens to soak up the sun and stay physically active! Keep yourself and
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Summer sun is here, and as we lather on the sunscreen to keep our skin safe, we can also reap the benefits of giving ourselves a little more Vitamin D. Why is Vitamin D important for your health? Vitamin D
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While the coronavirus shut down major aspects of daily life for many, those working in health care and public health, of course, have to soldier on. These front-line health heroes face significant risk of contracting the virus and passing it
DMU M.H.A., M.P.H. students are health heroes amid pandemic crisis Read More
Jonathan Crosbie, D.O., an assistant professor of family and internal medicine at Des Moines University and a physician in the DMU Clinic, will participate in a one-hour special about the respiratory disease COVID-19 in a program on Iowa PBS on
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Well. I’m afraid this blog post didn’t age quite as well as I would have hoped. I wrote this back in late January and back when I wrote it, there hadn’t been any real major community transmission outside of China.
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