Matthew Connell was appointed a gynecology faculty member at the National Institutes of Health. On July 1, 2015, he will begin a reproductive medicine fellowship at the NIH’s Program for Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology.
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You’ve probably heard the term “preventive medicine” a lot since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. The law requires insurance companies to cover several preventive care services at no cost to you. But what exactly is preventive medicine? Preventive
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Dr. Schirner retired from civil service with the U.S. Army on Sept. 20, 2014. He served the Army for 35 years, 25 on active duty and 10 as a civilian. He was the director of medical education at the Carl
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Back, hip or neck pain? Get a FREE osteopathic manual treatment at DMU during our annual OMM Community Night! Learn how osteopathic manual medicine (OMM) is used to evaluate and treat the whole body, from the feet through the pelvis,
John H. Yost, D.O.’86, is an assistant professor of medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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First- and second-year D.O. students were involved in a volunteer disaster relief training on September 26. The American Red Cross took 440 students — the largest group trained in the United States this year — through a tabletop exercise with disaster situations
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One-third of American adults have a dangerous condition that is so hard to detect that 20 percent of those who have it don’t even know it. Known as the “silent killer,” hypertension causes the heart to work harder than it
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Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. An estimated 293,000 U.S. children are at risk of being exploited and trafficked. Des Moines University is holding a series of
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As a young man in Battle Creek, MI, James Haffenden bought stock in a company because a neighbor was then its chief executive officer. Several decades later, he attended a DMU-sponsored session on planned giving techniques, held in conjunction with
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Brooke Johnson and her husband, Brandon Wright, welcomed daughter Palmer Nicole on May 17, 2014. She joins big sister Addison.
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