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Dentistry to evaluate treatment for reducing sleep apnea, snoring

Researchers at the UNMC College of Dentistry are conducting a pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of an oral device as an alternative non-invasive, less expensive treatment in reducing moderate sleep apnea and snoring. The college has received $7,000 to recruit and evaluate the device in 10 men and women, age 45 to 65.

Mar 5, 2003

UNMC faces next round of budget cuts

The news last Friday wasn’t good. The state’s economic forecasting board cut another $69 million from projected tax collections, meaning the state of Nebraska is faced with a $761 million budget shortfall over the next biennium. For sure, some of those reductions will be made to the University of Nebraska.

During the rest of this week, UNMC Today will present some of the basics about the budget situation at the university, how the university’s appropriation has compared with other state agencies during the past decade, and how Nebraska’s budget situation compares with other states.

Mar 5, 2003

Results of past budget reductions

The impending budget cut to UNMC will mark the fourth such reduction over the past three years. See story for the reduction strategies that are being implemented to deal with the most recent budget cut.

Mar 5, 2003

Midwest Student Biomedical Research awards

Learn who received awards at the 2003 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum on Feb. 22.

Mar 5, 2003

Quality assurance & research — a weekly HIPAA message

HIPAA, the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,” provides federal protection of patient health information. You will be receiving weekly messages to help you understand the topic and how it impacts your job. Today’s HIPAA message examines when quality assurance becomes research.

Mar 4, 2003

Mentoring students highlights week

To say Robert Troia, M.D., enjoys being a mentor to ophthalmology residents is an understatement. In fact, the 10 hours he devotes each week as a volunteer faculty member are the professional highlight of his week. Dr. Troia recently received the College of Medicine’s Volunteer Faculty of the Month award.

Mar 4, 2003

Dr. Thoreson named 2003 winner of Gilmore award

When Wallace Thoreson, Ph.D., was in college, his textbooks seemed to indicate that scientists had perfect vision on almost everything about human eyesight. However, as he progressed through his graduate and post-graduate training, Dr. Thoreson realized that the science world’s focus of vision function and disease was more than a little blurry. Dr. Thoreson is being honored March 5 as the recipient of the 2003 College of Medicine Joseph P. Gilmore Outstanding Investigator Award.

Mar 3, 2003

UNMC second quarter research grants total $10 million

UNMC received $10 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2002-03. The second quarter includes the months of October, November and December.

Mar 3, 2003

Documentary spotlights issues of slavery

Dusty, often illegible petitions emit the voices of human beings being sold, owned or seeking redress. On Friday, UNMC employees journeyed to the 1800s in the wrenching and powerful documentary “Let My People Go: The Trials of Bondage in the Words of Master and Slave.”

Mar 3, 2003

Play examines domination, oppression — part 4 of 4

Today’s performance of “Let My People Go: Trials of Bondage in Words of Master and Slave” is about history, not just black history, but racial and sexist domination and oppression, says Valda Boyd Ford, director of UNMC/NHS Community and Multicultural Affairs. The free performance begins at 11:30 a.m. in the College of Nursing’s Cooper Auditorium.

Feb 28, 2003