Lisa Spellman
UNMC collaborates with Educare Center
Fifty-eight students from The Educare Center of Omaha recently came to UNMC’s Pediatric Dental Clinic for dental screenings. The screenings were part of an ongoing collaboration UNMC has with Educare to provide basic health services and education for the children enrolled at the early childhood center.
Oct 11, 2005
UNMC lands $1.9 million grant for new AHECs
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded UNMC a $1.9 million grant to create Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) in Omaha and southeastern Nebraska and to continue funding the three existing AHECs based in Grand Island, Norfolk and Scottsbluff.
Sep 26, 2005
Study leads to better understanding of multiple sclerosis
It is commonly known that more women than men suffer from multiple sclerosis, lupus and thyroiditis, but researchers didn’t understand why – until now. A UNMC study appearing Friday in The Journal of Biological Chemistry reveals that the way female T cells interact with brain immune cells causes more inflammatory neurotoxic molecules capable of destroying brain myelin.
Sep 22, 2005
National storyteller, cancer survivor to perform Sept. 22
Nationally recognized storyteller Victoria Burnett will present a one-hour performance, “Storyspiritualogy” the art of telling stories through spirituals, at noon on Thursday, Sept. 22, at the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater. Food will be served to the first 50 attendees.
Sep 20, 2005
Summer research intern studies pancreatic cancer
Jonathan Johnson, 20, is a junior majoring in biology and pre-medicine with a minor in chemistry at Dillard University in New Orleans, La. Johnson has been a summer intern in the lab of Michael Hollingsworth, Ph.D., whose research focus is on pancreatic cancer. Learn more about him, in his words.
Aug 17, 2005
Students explore health careers at summer workshop
John Loschen carefully lifted the sticky gelatin ball out of the mold and placed it on his tongue. “Not bad,” said the high school junior from Wilcox, Neb. Loschen was one of 20 high school juniors and seniors from throughout Nebraska who participated in the Summer Health Professions Career Workshop last week at UNMC.
Aug 10, 2005
Accelerated programs produce more nurses, nursing faculty
The United States is a nation in need of nurses. This shortage has Colleges of Nursing across the country scrambling to find ways to alleviate the problem before it becomes an epidemic. Click to find out how UNMC’s College of Nursing is addressing the issue.
Jul 29, 2005
Walk to cure diabetes
With the annual Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Walk to Cure Diabetes set for Aug. 6, Margaret Bumann of UNMC’s Public Affairs writes about living with diabetes.
Jul 12, 2005
Grant explores exercise and heart failure
Can exercise improve the functional status of patients with heart failure and ultimately their over-all quality of life? And, once they learn how to exercise, how can those same patients be encouraged to stick with it? Co-investigators Bunny Pozehl, Ph.D., Kathleen Duncan, Ph.D., Joseph Norman, Ph.D., and Melody Hertzog, Ph.D., will spend the next two years searching for answers to these questions with support from a National Institute of Nursing Research grant totaling $220,500.
Jun 28, 2005
UNMC conducts study on breast cancer vaccine
UNMC researchers are conducting a unique vaccine trial for breast cancer patients with non-metastatic disease. Researchers believe giving the vaccine to patients at an earlier stage of cancer may produce a better chance of preventing a recurrence and cause regression of any remaining disease.
Jun 17, 2005