| 11/6/09 - UND School of Medicine and National Allies Educate Future Physicians in Fight to Stem Substance Abuse |
| GRAND FORKS, N.D.– The rigors of medical training sharpen a doctor's ability to diagnose and treat a wide variety of human afflictions. However, drug abuse and addiction are often insufficiently covered in medical school curricula, despite the fact that drug use affects a wide range of health conditions and drug abuse and addiction are themselves m....more |
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| 11/3/09 - Unique UND–Casper College partnership seeks to ease the pain of arthritis |
| GRAND FORKS, N.D.–Anyone writing the checks for household bills knows how painful it can feel, but for people living with arthritis, the act of writing can be physically painful as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in five U.S. adults (46.4 million) has doctor-diagnosed arthritis. In Wyoming, arthritis affects 109,000 resident....more |
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| 10/26/09 - Lacher and Hostetter Attend Statewide Diabetes Summit at United Tribes |
| The Dakota Diabetes Coalition’s annual Diabetes Summit was held October 16, on the campus of Bismarck’s United Tribes Technical College, which cosponsored the event.
Participating in the conference were Brenda Lacher, RN, diabetes education coordinator at the UND Center for Family Medicine–Bismarck, UND Southwest Campus, and Nancy Hostetter, ....more |
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| 10/19/09 - 7th Annual American Indian Health Research Conference to Focus on Health Care Reform |
| GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The 7th Annual American Indian Health Research Conference will be held on Friday, October 23, 2009, at the Canad Inns Hotel and Destination Center in Grand Forks. In addition to offering opportunities to discuss research directions, partnerships and collaboration in health research focusing on American Indians, the conference wi....more |
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| 10/13/09 - UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences Announces Pre-Med Day |
| Anyone interested in learning about a career in medicine, or in the process of applying to medical school, is invited to attend the annual Pre-Med Day on Saturday, October 24, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (UNDSMHS).
This daylong event is free and takes place in the Reed Keller Auditorium (Room 1350) at....more |
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| 10/13/09 - Markland Wins 2009 Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award |
| Mary Markland, the librarian for the Southeast Clinical Campus of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Fargo, N.D., won the 2009 Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award from the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MLA) at its annual conference on October 5 in Columbus, Ohio.
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| 10/13/09 - Medical Students’ Clinical Research Projects Presented and Published |
| Fourth-year medical students Miran Blanchard, Kelsey Hoffman, and Justin LeBlanc presented their abstract, “The Association of Distance from Cancer Center and Season of Diagnosis with Receipt of Optimal Therapy for Breast Cancer,” at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Conference held in San Francisco, Calif., on October 8–10.
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