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Image with caption: UNMC and Nebraska Medicine have responded to a request from an international agency to send a team of infectious diseases experts to Uganda to help prevent the spread of Ebola.

UNMC and Nebraska Medicine have responded to a request from an international agency to send a team of infectious diseases experts to Uganda to help prevent the spread of Ebola.

Remembering: Bruce Buehler, M.D.

Visionary leader directed Munroe-Meyer Institute for 24 years and UNMC Department of Pediatrics for 16 years

Sep 19, 2018

Bruce Buehler, M.D.

Chicago physician to lead pediatrics for UNMC, Children’s Hospital

Anna Spagnoli, M.D., comes from Rush University Children’s Hospital/Rush University Medical Center

Sep 19, 2018

Anna Spagnoli, M.D.

Renowned pediatric oncologist/cancer researcher joins UNMC/Children’s Hospital

Donald Durden, M.D., Ph.D., brings more than $9 million in NIH grant support

Sep 19, 2018

Donald Durden, M.D., Ph.D.

New farm safety website to debut for National Farm Safety Week, Sept. 22-26

Features firsthand accounts by farmers of agriculture-related incidents

Sep 14, 2018

One of the stories in the Telling the Story Project includes a farm fatality caused by hydrogen sulfide gas at an open lagoon.  (Photo courtesy Stephanie Leonard, Telling the Story Project)

Free seminar seeks to improve services for Nebraskans with disabilities

Sept. 21-22 event will build leadership skills, target underserved groups

Sep 13, 2018

Lightning is underrated killer responsible for 47 deaths per year

Farmers at greater risk than average population

Sep 7, 2018

Rollover Protection Structures can prevent injury/death due to tractor rollovers

Thanks to rebate program, average ROPS cost is only $391

Aug 27, 2018

UNMC graduate student Dan Kent (center) discusses with young farmers the importance of seat belts and rollover protection structures.

UNMC to host national modeling, simulation meeting

Improving human performance, effectiveness will be focus of meeting

Aug 22, 2018

UNMC conducts biocontainment research, training for Department of Defense

Evaluating equipment, procedures used in airlifting patients in insolation systems

Jul 31, 2018

Airmen from the 628th and 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadrons transport a simulated highly infectious patient during a training exercise with UNMC-led investigators. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Maund)