Purpose: Partial nephrectomies by their nature are associated with renal volume loss. Our goal from this study is to examine renal volume loss over time post partial nephrectomy.
Material and Methods: Fifty patients were...
There is a need for anabolic therapies to treat degenerative bone
diseases. Mechanical loading stimulates anabolic and inhibits
catabolic pathways of bone leading to increased bone formation.
Osteocytes are the bone cell...
Obesity and metabolic dysfunction negatively impacts many tissues, including the skeleton. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2) is a serine/threonine protein kinase and key regulator of whole-body...
Strabismus “squint eyes” is a common disorder presenting in about 2% of children born each year. While there are several causes to this presentation, we demonstrated presentation caused by Peripheral nerve neuropathies,...
Osteoporosis is a disease of low bone mass that places individuals at enhanced risk for fracture, disability, and death. Hospitalizations for osteoporotic fractures exceeds those for heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer...
Hiatal hernias are a very common medical condition and present as the pathologic passage of the foregut through the esophageal hiatus. While most hiatal
hernias are asymptomatic, presenting symptoms can easily progress to...
• The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the swift development of multiple vaccines
• Common side effects of COVID-19 vaccination include lymphadenopathy and fever in healthy adults
• Fever and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for additional health precautions in medically fragile populations. COVID-19 is a respiratory virus demonstrating increased mortality in individuals with risk factors such as...
During the undergraduate Nursing Research and Informatics course, a question is posed and students are asked to submit a picture with caption that answers the question. All pictures are de-identified, printed, and given to...
Marian partnered with the Bard Women's Collaboration Project at the Indiana Women's Prison beginning in 2019. Classes continued to be offered through COVID with distance learning and returned to in-person sessions this past...
Nursing students, enrolled in the NSG427 Bereavement and Loss elective, were joined by others in the Marian University community to participate in
a "Death Cafe' Fire Pit Experience". The Death Cafe' is an international...
Recently, Marian University acquired a virtual dissection tool, the Anatomage Table. As the anatomy course director for the Biomedical Science Master’s program, I aim to integrate this expansive resource into the curriculum,...
Clinical medicine courses often attempt to develop skills in applying biomedical sciences instruction to clinical situations. This goal can be accomplished in many different ways, but such techniques often require the learner...
A wiki is a collection of pages that allow collaborative modification and management (e.g., Wikipedia). Medical students designed a wiki that outlined the major concepts covered in Immunology during the Foundations class. The...
Students in my sections of THL 105 Introduction to Theology learn actively toward several course outcomes through a field trip to the colonnade near the Allison Mansion. Overlooking the natural landscape of the Ecolab, the...
My innovative land acknowledgement project asks students to engage with Native American pasts, presents, and futures. In this multi-step research assignment, students expand their historical and cultural awareness by...
Engineering is about understanding how things work, and exploring the ways to engineer them for the benefit of society. A solid foundation of STEM knowledge can open a student endless opportunity in various fields. An...
Practicing empathy and listening skills are not traditionally components of a graduate-level biomedical science curriculum, however incorporating an opportunity for students to refine both can be given using “patient” podcast...
Accurate scientific communication is of chief importance. The ability to understand complex biomedical content and describe it in accurate simplistic terms is a skill that needs practice and refinement. The Kindergarten...
This session will provide participants with hands-on ideas to implement in organizing their classes. How can we use course objectives and key outcomes to realign our syllabi and class plans to ensure that students are more...