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UNMC College of Pharmacy Researcher Leads $2.1 Million International Study To Develop Promising New Compounds That May Lead to New Anti-Malarial Drug Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy have received a two-year, $2.1 million grant to develop a new anti-malarial drug they discovered. They are collaborating with researchers from the […]
Aug 13, 2001
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry researcher and dentist, Jeffrey B. Payne, D.D.S., has seen many elderly women patients suffer the loss of teeth because of periodontitis a disease that causes destruction of bone and gums, the supporting structures of the teeth. Periodontitis is the number one cause of tooth loss in men […]
Aug 10, 2001
NHS and UNMC Launch New Intestinal Rehabilitation Program
Nebraska Health System (NHS) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) are expanding their world-renowned intestinal failure and transplantation programs with the creation of a new Intestinal Rehabilitation Program. This new initiative will be started in partnership with the Nutritional Restart Center (NRC) of Hopkinton, Mass., and will be located in Omaha. The new […]
Aug 8, 2001
55 Students Receive Diplomas At UNMC
Diplomas will be conferred on 55 University of Nebraska Medical Center students next week. The following is a list of graduates by college, degree and hometown: College of Nursing Bachelor of Science in Nursing NORTH PLATTE – Cindy S. (Cowles) Litz OMAHA – Dorothea Michele Peak School of Allied Health Professions Post Baccalaureate Certificate in […]
Aug 8, 2001
An EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) grant from the National Science Foundation is providing $9 million over the next three years and will develop an informatics infrastructure at Nebraska universities in a number of important areas, including bioinformatics. EPSCoR grant programs are available to states with smaller federal research budgets and are awarded […]
Aug 7, 2001
An EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) grant from the National Science Foundation is providing $9 million over the next three years and will develop an informatics infrastructure at Nebraska universities in a number of important areas, including bioinformatics. EPSCoR grant programs are available to states with smaller federal research budgets and are awarded […]
Aug 7, 2001
UNMC Graduate Serves Her Own People
Cindy Jacobs often dreamed of visiting far-away lands growing up as the youngest of seven on the Pine Ridge Reservation. “I always thought I would join the Air Force because I wanted to go places,” said the young woman in a white lab coat. “I wanted to go to different countries.” But pulled by family […]
Aug 3, 2001
Pen Pal Relationship Sparks Career in Nursing
A pen pal relationship between a studious fifth-grader at Druid Hill Elementary School and a 79-year old senior citizen bore the ultimate fruit in May when Dorothea Peak graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing with a bachelor’s degree. In 1989, Peak and other Druid Hill fifth-graders were encouraged to write […]
Aug 3, 2001
UNMC’s Sleep Medicine Fellowship Training Program Accredited
The sleep medicine fellowship training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center recently received national accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The program is the only one of its kind in the Midwest. “Sleep medicine is a relatively new area of medicine and we’re extremely pleased to be one of the few […]
Aug 1, 2001
Vitamin E and Selenium to be Tested as Prevention Agents
Several Omaha Health Care Providers to Participate in Largest-Ever Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Healthy men age 55 and older are needed for the largest-ever prostate cancer prevention study, launched today by the National Cancer Institute. The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, or SELECT, seeks to learn if these two dietary supplements can […]
Jul 24, 2001