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AgeAlive: Promoting lifelong wellbeing
AgeAlive is a recently established program within the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. The timing could not be better. The U.S. population is rapidly aging which has, or soon…
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MSU Alliance for African Partnership grant could help prevent neurological disease in Congo
Nearly 30 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk of contracting a neurological disease simply because of what they eat. Konzo, which means “bound legs” in the African…
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Reducing opioid use with manipulative therapy
With the explosion of opioid addiction in America, doctors and patients are looking for ways to avoid using the painkillers. For some, manipulative therapy could be a way out.
The…
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Can OMT help traumatic brain injury patients? A Michigan DO plans to find out
Traumatic brain injury patients in Michigan may be about to get a dose of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT).
Rebecca Wyatt, DO, who was awarded a research grant by the AOA…
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Fighting the protective barriers of bacteria
One of the challenges in treating infectious bacteria is finding agents that can penetrate the protective barriers, also known as biofilms, that the organisms develop.
Biofilms…
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Coaxing the body to heal broken bones
What if a doctor could prescribe a pill that would help broken bones heal?
Robert Zondervan, an MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine medical student and doctoral candidate in the…
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