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More than $51,000 raised at skate-a-thon, ice bowlers top $12,000
More than $51,000 was raised at the UNMC Skate-a-thon for Parkinson’s, which includes more than $12,000 that was drummed up by the eight UNMC employees and students who volunteered to be human ice bowling balls on Friday night.
Jan 30, 2012
Dr. Wagner-led study yields novel breast cancer finding
Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. Of those women, approximately one in five test positive for Her2, an aggressive type of breast cancer that is harder to fight because it is less responsive to hormonal therapy.
Jan 24, 2012
UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center Unveil Plans for a New Cancer Center
New center would elevate Nebraska’s role in cancer care and research
Jan 19, 2012
Dr. Kang lands fiction deal with Penguin, credits Seven Doctors Project
When Lydia Kang, M.D., joined the Seven Doctors Project in 2008, she thought she could get some help with some poetry she had written.
Jan 10, 2012
Reenforcement on the front lines of mental health
It’s estimated that more than half of all U.S. mental health care takes place at the primary care level and that percentage jumps considerably in rural areas where there often are no mental health practitioners for hundreds of miles.
Jan 6, 2012
Dental student grateful for more than just a scholarship
When UNMC dental student Jake Zitterkopf sat down to write a thank you letter to the people who gave his scholarship, he never intended to go above and beyond the ordinary. But that’s what he did. (Story links to University of Nebraska Foundation website.)
Jan 5, 2012
Skate-a-thon for Parkinson’s returns to campus Jan. 27-28, volunteers sought
The second-annual UNMC Skate-a-thon for Parkinson’s will take place at the campus ice rink on Jan. 27-28 from 5 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Jan 4, 2012
A look back at 2011 at UNMC
UNMC parties on ice all night to fight Parkinson’s, a key administrator is lost suddenly, public health gets a campus home and new faces fill several major leadership roles.
Jan 3, 2012
Dr. Swindells part of HIV study that Science deems 2011’s best
Susan Swindells, M.B.B.S., was a co-investigator for a study that the leading journal, Science, has deemed the “Scientific Breakthrough of 2011” and that researchers say could lead to the end of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Dec 30, 2011
Growing clinical research — Translators sought
Read a story from the latest UNMC Discover about the medical center’s translational research efforts.
Dec 29, 2011
