Press Release
In conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service’s issuance of a new Organ & Tissue Donation stamp, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Health System will host a special event on Aug. 5 to sell the new stamps and provide a special first-day stamp cancellation featuring The Lied Transplant Center on the UNMC/NHS […]
Jul 24, 1998
UNMC and Cox Communications to Launch New TV Show on Cox 02TV
The University of Nebraska Medical Center will launch a 26-week pilot cable television show on July 28 at 9:30 p.m., on Cox O2TV, channel 2. The topic for the shows premiere is, Cancer Research and the Media: Fact or Hype. The program, A Healthy Debate, will focus on ethical, scientific and practical aspects of health […]
Jul 24, 1998
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Health System have formed the South Omaha Community Care Council, a 25-member group whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of South Omaha residents. The council, which meets every other month, will serve as a resource in the community that provides information on prevention, intervention […]
Jul 23, 1998
Multi-Skilled Rural Health Professional Work Force
is Goal of UNMC’s Add-A-Competency Program The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s rural education program has graduated 64 students since its beginning in 1991. Of those rural program graduates, 94 percent obtained their first job in a rural area – 76 percent of those jobs were in rural Nebraska. Prior to the program, only 8 […]
Jul 23, 1998
UNMC Student Wins First Place Award for Research on Infectious Diseases and Immunology Sandra Willian, a University of Nebraska Medical Center student won first place in the McLaughlin Awards at the 39th annual National Student Research Forum held in Galveston, Texas. Ms. Willian is a 1989 graduate of Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo., and […]
Jul 18, 1998
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