Wordless Wednesday: Save the date
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Three DMU researchers awarded an Iowa Science Foundation grant
Three Des Moines University researchers have received a $5,000 grant from the Iowa Science Foundation, the foundation arm of the Iowa Academy of Science. Marie Nguyen, Ph.D., Martin Schmidt, Ph.D., and Muhammad Spocter, Ph.D. all submitted proposals and were fully
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Anatomy word of the month: Buccinator
The “trumpeter” in Latin. Our cheek muscles, the buccinator, assist the tongue during chewing movements to hold food between our teeth. Otherwise food would accumulate between our cheek and gums making chewing much less efficient and much more frustrating to
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Get social with DMU
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La Clinica comes to campus
La Clinica de la Esperanza is coming to the DMU Clinic late this summer. A partnership between DMU and Iowa Health System (IHS), the clinic was created in 1995 to provide primary care to Latino immigrants in Polk County from
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Alumni spotlight: Five years of DMU at West Penn
These students and alumni of DMU’s College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, representing the classes of 2009 to 2013, have been residents or students at West Penn Allegheny Health System, one of Pittsburgh’s leading medical teaching facilities.
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A tale of two tracheas
Reporter and National Public Radio science correspondent Robert Krulwich recently shared a suspenseful and true story about a woman in Barcelona struck by tuberculosis. Rather than have her left lung removed, she agreed to receive a transplanted trachea. The woman,
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A man with a plan
The late anatomy Professor Frank Kneussl, Ph.D., didn’t limit his significant and positive impact on DMU with his 25 years of teaching and service, his role in helping develop its podiatric medicine and physician assistant programs, or the thousands of students he taught during his career.
Waging peace through military medicine
Most people understand the wartime mission of the U.S. military, but there are many aspects of the nation’s military force that wage peace, save lives, develop friendships and solve health problems in areas of severe need. The results are nothing short of magical.
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