Transcript You have asked: “Why would a booster shot be necessary if it’s just the same thing that I’ve already received?” This is such a good question. I think it’s really important for you to understand that booster shots are […]
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If you are like most people, you’ve likely experienced pain at some point in your life. Maybe that pain lasted only for a day or two, or perhaps you have pain now and it has been lasting for a while.
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Medical rotations have taken Emily Willmann to Cedar Rapids, IA; Palm Springs, CA; Wyandotte, MI; and, most recently, Cleveland. Her tip for such a peripatetic lifestyle: a “really good suitcase.” The fourth-year DMU osteopathic medical student says rotations are great
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On a brilliantly sunny, first autumn day, Des Moines University’s new campus steering committee watched a white beam be “flown” to its permanent home in the uppermost southwest corner of the Innovation Building, under construction on an 88-acre site in
We asked you to share your questions with us regarding vaccines. Dr. Crosbie is up first answering the question, “Can the COVID-19 vaccine give you blood clots?” Transcript We got a question; can the vaccine give you blood clots? I’m
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The health care provider students are gathered around the patient, who came into the emergency room complaining of heartburn and chest discomfort. They are beginning to feel anxious because the patient said her discomfort is becoming worse, and she now has
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Maranda Chapin Stohr, D.P.T.’19, ATC, was in the second grade when initial news of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC, came
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time” Read More
The bottom line of an article by a DMU faculty member and students recently published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, “Sex estimation of the subadult ilium prior to acetabular fusion,” is that in in the forensic skeletal analyses of
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A health profession that helps individuals develop, adapt, recover, improve and maintain the skills to allow them to live life to the fullest has pushed Diana Feldhacker, O.T.D., out of her comfort zone more than once. It’s led her to
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Becoming a physician was always the long-term plan of Adam Bertroche, D.O.’17. After graduating from Luther College in Decorah, IA, with a bachelor of science degree in biology and working for a year for a medical electronic records company, he
D.O. alumnus returns to DMU for “exciting opportunity” Read More