Ryan Shaw
The Guatemalan woman’s rheumatoid arthritis so incapacitated her that she couldn’t get around her house to handle the most common tasks. She came to the clinic in Antigua where Kevin Garvin, M.D., and others from UNMC provided relief.
Apr 7, 2012
Students Engage in Global Health in Omaha
Americans take much for granted – from refrigerators to toilets to health care. But refugees seeking asylum from war zones in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa often don’t know what to put in a refrigerator, how to use a toilet, where to get their children immunized and that they can question their health provider.
Apr 7, 2012
Answers Delivered Before Delivery
Kourtney Case knew she’d find out the sex of her baby at her 20-week ultrasound. She didn’t know she’d learn her baby boy would be born without a hand.
Apr 7, 2012
Nine-year-old Noah Legros sits on one foot and deals out UNO cards to a group of four boys around the table. But this isn’t your average after-school gathering. The participants in the group have all been diagnosed with high-functioning autism, Asperger’s disorder or ADHD. Noah is in social skills class at UNMC’s
Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI).
Apr 7, 2012
RSVP today for Social Life of Health Care talk
A talk on the social life of health care will be featured during the 23rd Visiting Nurse Scholar event on March 28 at Field Club of Omaha.
Mar 22, 2012
Lookin’ at U – Nikki Hackendahl
This week, we learn more about Nikki Hackendahl, a Marketing Specialist in the Human Genetics Lab at the Munroe-Meyer Institute.
Mar 22, 2012
UNMC researchers to study role of tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer
Hope to develop better therapeutics by learning more about pancreatic cancer cells
Oct 10, 2011
Research Notes – Dr. Thoreson published in Nature Neuroscience
UNMC researcher Wallace Thoreson, Ph.D., is one of the lead investigators of a study designed to better understand how signals are transmitted in the brain.
Aug 1, 2011
Will work on health planning, policy and finance
Jul 27, 2011
