Press Release
UNMC Awarded a $50,000 Locally-Funded Grant to Study Breast Cancer
Health officials estimate that in 1998 more than 178,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer and that 43,500 women will die of the disease. The American Cancer Society reported in 1997 that 30 percent of new cancer patients were women who were diagnosed with breast cancer. Researchers at the University […]
Jul 17, 1998
Founder of Medical Technology Program at UNMC, Helen Reihart, Dies at the Age of 102 Founder of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine medical technology program, Helen Wyandt Reihart, died on July 6, at the age of 102. Reihart founded the medical technology program at UNMC in 1938, which has evolved into […]
Jul 8, 1998
Dr. Billings Named Assistant Dean for UNMC College of Nursing Kearney Division
Judith Sims Billings, Ph.D., has been named assistant dean for the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Nursing Kearney Division. Dr. Billings has 33 years of nursing experience which includes 23 years with the Kearney nursing program. In 1976, she was one of three faculty members to start the nursing program at Kearney State […]
Jul 7, 1998
Of all the products on the market to help people quit smoking, the nicotine patch still is among the best ways for smokers, especially heavy smokers, to quit. In 1991, one of the first major clinical trials for the nicotine patch was held at nine sites around the country. Dave Daughton, a smoking cessation researcher […]
Jun 16, 1998
Despite Losing Federal Funding, UNMC Continues to Run Student Minority Program
Despite losing federal funding from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Nebraska Medical Center continues to operate the Minority College and High School Student Summer Program. Last fall, the NIH changed selection criteria for students to include economic data from the student’s families. Terry Lawson, Ph.D., professor in the Eppley Institute for Research […]
Jun 13, 1998
Howard E. Gendelman M.D., has been named the David T. Purtilo Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Gendelman serves as director of the Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Diseases. He also is a professor of pathology and microbiology, internal medicine and psychiatry. Dr. Gendelman graduated with honors […]
Jun 12, 1998
A team of researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Boys Town National Research Hospital has located the gene responsible for Usher syndrome Type IIa — the leading cause of combined deafness and blindness in the industrialized world. The discovery, which could lead to an eventual cure for the genetic disorder, is reported […]
Jun 11, 1998
Byers W. Shaw Jr., M.D., avid biker, transplant surgeon and chief of surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, will carry a message to each community as he rides across Nebraska during the Bicycle Ride Across Nebraska Eighteen "Barnstormer’s Tour," June 7-13. Along the overnight stops in Gering, Oshkosh, Paxton, Arnold, Ravenna, Sutton and […]
Jun 2, 1998
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine is one of only eight medical schools in the country selected to receive a contract for developing undergraduate medical education for the 21st century. The contract, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), gives the College of Medicine $125,000 each year for three years […]
Jun 2, 1998
On Monday, June 8, from noon to 1 p.m., Omaha’s KIOS-FM radio station, frequency 91.5, will broadcast the Pubic Radio International program, "This American Life." A one-hour broadcast documentary titled, "Scenes from a Transplant" will be aired. It is a first-person story of Rebecca Perl’s diagnosis in 1995 and following treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The […]
Jun 2, 1998