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by Tom O’Connor, UNMC public relations   A common question asked by researchers is, “What is the function of my favorite gene?” One way to answer this is to knock it out from the research model – either a cell or an organism.   From left: C.B. Gurumurthy, Ph.D., Rolen Quadros and Don Harms offer [...]

There is so much to learn when you become a new parent. Keeping our patients comfortable enables them to focus on their new baby and not their discomfort.” –Michelle Bomer,  manager, Women Services and Childbirth Education and project owner     The patient experience. So many factors contribute to this, including noise levels, quality of care [...]

Omaha, Neb – Greg Rathe has been here before. Waiting. This time it’s much different than it was 17 years ago. Rathe, 42, said his first heart transplant in 1996 came about after a sudden onset of cardiomyopathy, the weakening of the heart muscles. Early this year, his symptoms returned. “I felt weak and couldn’t [...]

UNMC oncologist chairs panel that develops new guidelines to help guide adolescents, young adults through cancer A University of Nebraska Medical Center pediatric oncologist, Peter Coccia, M.D., served as chairman of a national panel that developed patient guidelines to help guide adolescents and young adults with cancer through diagnosis, treatment and after therapy. These guidelines [...]

Patients who have experienced stroke or a transient ischemic attach (TIA) are at significant risk for another stroke. In many cases, a TIA is a warning sign that a true stroke may happen in the future if something is not done to prevent it. “Preventive surgery can reduce the risk of a future stroke 9 [...]

A rise in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged Americans and their link to the human papilloma virus (HPV) is leading some medical experts to begin recommending the HPV vaccine for both men and women. “The last decade has seen a 5 to 6 percent increase per year in the incidence [...]

Intestinal failure, whether occurring as a sudden catastrophe or more insidiously over years of symptoms and surgeries, can be devastating for patients and difficult to manage for physicians. “For both adults and children with the diagnosis, treatment can be complex, often requiring intensive nutritional support, management of wounds and central lines, surgical intervention and assistance [...]

Cardiac MRI is a very powerful diagnostic tool and one of the most valuable techniques available to image the heart, says Samer Sayyed, MD, cardiologist at The Nebraska Medical Center and assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). “Cardiac MRI goes beyond just analyzing the structure of the heart, [...]

Early diagnosis and evaluation is key for patients with kidney disease who are candidates for hemodialysis. “Our goal is to evaluate patients well before they need dialysis so we can provide them the proper access and determine if they are candidates for transplant,” says Michael Morris, MD, who heads the Vascular Access Clinic at The [...]

Doctors at The Nebraska Medical Center have added a new high-speed cardiac nuclear imaging camera that can improve doctors’ ability to evaluate a patient’s risk of having a heart attack to their arsenal of cardiac diagnostic tools. Compared to older nuclear imaging cameras, the new technology offers a solid state technology that results in images [...]