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Next Ladder Meeting: Fun with the Stomach, Guts & Stuff!
Ever wondered what happens after you gulp down a bowl of cereal, gnaw a slice of pizza, or crunch on an apple? How does your body turn the food you put in your mouth into stuff it can actually use? … Continue reading
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May Meeting Recap: Brains, Nerves & Reflexes
Medical scholars at May’s meeting of the Ladder got the chance to learn all about the brain, nerves and reflexes: how you use them for something as simple as clapping, testing how fast your nerves let your brain talk to … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Magnetic resonance imaging, nervous system, Phineas Gage, Prefrontal cortex, Stroke, UROC
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Next Ladder Meeting: Fun with Brains, Nerves and Reflexes!
So you’ve got sweet moves. How do you make those happen? Do you have to think through each and every motion, how every single muscle in your arms and legs will twitch and tug when they need to so you … Continue reading
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March Ladder Meeting Recap – The Heart!
At March’s meeting of the Ladder, the focus was on the heart: learning different ways of listening to the heart, what a healthy heart sounds like, and how to reset a heart that’s not doing what it’s supposed to do. … Continue reading
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Video: Inside The Ladder
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Coming in April: Sports Medicine with David Olson, M.D.
You might already think that being a physician would be one of the coolest gigs on earth. But what if you could be a sports doc for pro football, basketball, hockey or baseball teams? Join us at the next Ladder … Continue reading
“Scrubs, Gloves and Microscopes:” an Opportunity for High School Students
Are you a high school student interested in exploring your options for a career as a health care professional? Do you already know you want a career as a physical therapist, dentist, veterinarian, surgeon, physician or medical researcher and want … Continue reading
Next Ladder Meeting: Strong Heart, Sick Heart – Listen, Teach and Learn
You see plenty of these kinds of hearts around Valentine’s Day… …but what does a real heart, YOUR heart, actually look like? Maybe you’ve seen pics of the human heart, or even had to learn about the heart in school … Continue reading
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Tagged heart, heart function, medical procedures, stethoscope
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February Ladder meeting recap – the lungs!
At February’s meeting of the Ladder, medical scholars of all ages learned about lungs – how they work, how to find out if they’re working right, and what it sounds and looks like when they’re not working very well. Before … Continue reading
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Tagged lung function, lungs, mae jemison, medical procedures, pulse oximetry, stethoscope
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Next Ladder Meeting: The Lungs and Lung Stuff!
What do you know about your lungs? Do you use them to eat? Do you hear with them? Use them for walking? Nah – you know what they’re for: breathing! Your lungs are 24/7 work horses. Whether you’re biking or … Continue reading
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