Topic: Infectious Diseases
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Expand Your Medical Knowledge With DMU’s Free Mini Medical School
Des Moines University’s free Mini Medical School provides health information you can use in four sessions in February.
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Time to Get Your Flu, COVID-19 Vaccines
Getting your flu shot and updated COVID-19 immunization shot protects you, your family and your community against serious illness. Do your part by getting your shots now.
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DMU provides coronavirus testing to students, employees
It may look (and feel) like a Q-tip to your brain, but a common type of coronavirus test is actually a nasopharyngeal swab – and DMU clinicians and students are offering it to other University employees and students as well as to DMU Clinic patients who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. The University began using…
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Getting your flu shot is more important than ever
“Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Flu.” “Flu who?” I don’t know about all you readers out there, but I’ve felt so inundated with coronavirus news the past few years that influenza (the flu) was put on my mind’s back burner. The coronavirus didn’t set fire in Iowa until a majority of the 2019-2020 flu season was…
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DMU Research Symposium celebrates 10th anniversary in a big way – scientifically, of course
A record number of attendees, 97 presented posters and high-energy oral presentations made the DMU Research Symposium on Dec. 5, 2019, truly worthy of its 10th anniversary. Students and scientists presented their work in anatomy/paleontology, biomedical science, clinical applications, movement science, education and public health. It was like a scientific smorgasbord for the brain. “This…
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DMU student researches West Nile virus at the CDC
Christine Jackson, D.O.’20, M.P.H.’20, completed an eight-week internship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA, during July and August 2018. Christine was selected to participate in this internship as part of the DMU Department of Global Health’s Distinguished Global Health Internships program. These internships are selective research opportunities that enable…
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Time to get your flu shot
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. “We’ve come a long way in management and prevention of the flu,” says Rachel Hersom,…
