DMU Magazine

How to do just about anything

April 15, 2010 / 1 minute of reading

Sharing and enhancing knowledge are what members of the DMU community are all about, and not only in medicine and health care. In fact, DMU alumni, students, faculty and staff know how to do all kinds of useful and interesting things that can help you lead a happier, longer life and amaze others. Whether you want to stay safe, lose belly flab, impress your colleagues, feed a big crowd at a party or be the life of it, you’ll find all the how-tos you need on the following pages.

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Updated bone-densitometry technology

April 13, 2010 / 1 minute of reading

New state-of-the-art equipment in DMU Clinic’s radiology department provides benefits to patients, health care providers and researchers.

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Dealing with urinary incontinence

April 13, 2010 / 3 minutes of reading

Wetting one’s pants after sneezing. Discomfort while sitting. Painful intercourse. Millions of women are believed to suffer these and other pelvic floor disorders along with the physical, emotional and social nightmares they create. Many suffer silently, too embarrassed to discuss these issues even with their physicians.

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In Good Shape

January 15, 2010 / 3 minutes of reading

Amid changes in leadership and challenges of a turbulent economy, Des Moines University is squarely positioned for continued success. 2009 was a year of growth and change for Des Moines University.We experienced growth in our total enrollment, growth in our

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DMU students see friends, not stereotypes

January 15, 2010 / 9 minutes of reading

In the University’s Homeless Camp Outreach, students learn to help people “where they are” – and gain compassion in the process.

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DMU’s well-rounded wellness program goes platinum

January 15, 2010 / 4 minutes of reading

The University is the first U.S. college or university to earn the highest recognition granted by the Wellness Councils of America.

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Doctor feels the need for speed

January 15, 2010 / 4 minutes of reading

Physicians typically dash from one patient or procedure to another through long exausting days. Jeannie Pflum, D.O.’97, an obstetrics and gynecology doctor in Santa Rosa, CA, is no exception.

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New podiatric residency in Des Moines

January 15, 2010 / 2 minutes of reading

The cases and physicians involved in a new podiatric medicine residency in Des Moines will greatly benefit the DMU graduates who experience it. But the residency will serve Iowans, too, by training and keeping more podiatric medical physicians in the state.

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Pursuing the path of totality

January 14, 2010 / 4 minutes of reading

By day, Kelly Prescher, M.S.’93, D.P.T.’04, is a physical therapist at University of California-San Diego’s Thornton Hospital. In her spare time, she is chair and newsletter editor of the San Diego district of the American Physical Therapy Association. She’s mother to daughter Audrey and partner to her significant other, Doug. But when the moon inserts itself between the earth and the sun, she becomes Kelly Prescher, eclipse-chaser.

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To disclose or not disclose: That is the question

January 14, 2010 / 7 minutes of reading

In the 2008 DreamWorks comedy “Ghost Town,” character Bertram Pincus discovers the surgeon failed to disclose his momentary death during a routine colonoscopy. “Have you any idea how much I am going to sue you for?” he sputters.

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