Press Release

Area Health Professionals to Offer Free Depression Screenings for National Depression Screening Day

 Mental health professionals from the Nebraska Psychiatric Society and the Creighton-University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Psychiatry will offer local residents the opportunity to learn about the signs and symptoms of depression and manic-depression, and to participate in a free screening as part of National Depression Screening Day on Thursday, Oct. 8, from 7 […]

Oct 5, 1998

UNMC College of Dentistry Dean To Retire in 13 Months

 Stephen Leeper, D.D.S., dean of the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry for the past decade, announced today that he will step down effective Oct. 31, 1999.  His leaving the position will come soon after the culmination of the college’s centennial year celebration. The college celebrates its 100th anniversary on Sept. 17, 1999. “Dean Leeper […]

Oct 1, 1998

UNMC Researchers Identify Gene Causing Rare Fatal Immunological Problem in Males

 An international team of scientists, including several University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers, has identified the gene involved in X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP). The disorder, also known as Duncan’s disease, is marked by an extreme vulnerability to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes virus group that infects the majority of individuals by […]

Oct 1, 1998

Reservations Now Being Taken for Nov. 6 Dinner in Omaha Honoring Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

 Reservations are now being taken for the Nov. 6 dinner at the Strategic Air Command Museum to present Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Central Command during Operation Desert Storm in 1990, with the first Ambassador of Hope Award from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Cancer Center.  The […]

Sep 25, 1998

UNMC NHS To Hold Sept. 30 Tree Planting in Ainsworth To Raise Awareness for Organ Donation

 A tree-planting ceremony to honor organ donors and recipients will be held Sept. 30 in Ainsworth as part of “The Tree of Life” campaign being sponsored by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Health System. A total of 24 Nebraska cities will hold tree-planting events over the next 12 months as part […]

Sep 21, 1998

Carol Bell Lectureship Program at UNMC Hopes to Heighten Cancer Awareness

 One of the countrys leading prostate cancer experts, Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D., will come to the University of Nebraska Medical Center on Sept. 16 to deliver the first lecture in honor of a prominent Omaha woman who died of cancer last year.  The noon lecture, to be held in the Wittson Hall Amphitheater on the […]

Sep 14, 1998

UNMC Eppley Cancer Center Joins Local Organizations to Host Cancer Awareness Rally

Approximately 496,000 Americans died in the five wars fought in this century. But cancer takes the lives of 550,000 Americans each year. In an attempt to help win the war against cancer, THE MARCH, a national campaign to make cancer the nations number one health priority, has been organized. The University of Nebraska Medical Center […]

Sep 11, 1998

UNMC Eppley Cancer Center Receives More Than $95,000 from Cattlemen’s Ball Proceeds

 The University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Cancer Center has received more than $95,000 in proceeds from the 1998 Cattlemens Ball. Windmills Against the Sandhills Sky, was the theme for the first ball, which was held June 6 at the Graff/Snover Ranch in Ainsworth. More than 2,000 people attended the fundraising event and more than […]

Sep 11, 1998

New Jersey Couple Makes $500,000 Gift to the Lied Transplant Center

A New Jersey man who was successfully treated for cancer nearly 10 years ago at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has shown his appreciation by making a $500,000 gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to benefit The Lied Transplant Center, which is nearing completion on the UNMC campus.    David Aresty, of Morristown, […]

Sep 4, 1998

UNMC, Children’s Hospital Combine to Put Continuing Education Classes on the Internet

 In an effort to make continuing education classes more accessible to rural primary care physicians and other health-care providers, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Children’s Hospital have combined forces to put Pediatric Grand Rounds lectures on the Internet.  The project is being directed by James Harper, M.D., director of undergraduate pediatric education at […]

Sep 4, 1998