Margaret Bumann UNMC public affairs

Medical center offering breakthrough prostate cancer therapy

A new kind of radiation therapy is targeting cancer the same way a Global Positioning System, or GPS, pinpoints the location of your car. The Calypso 4D Localization System is now being offered to prostate cancer patients at The Nebraska Medical Center, one of only five medical centers worldwide to attain the Calypso technology.

Mar 19, 2007

Record crowd attends stem cell Mini-med

Stem cell research is one of the country’s most controversial and politically-charged medical issues. So it’s no surprise that a record crowd filled the Durham Research Center Auditorium on Tuesday night for UNMC’s Mini-Medical School on stem cells.

Nov 30, 2006

McGoogan rare book rooms reopening

A collection of rare medical books owned by UNMC is back where it belongs — in the McGoogan Library’s rare book rooms. A series of events will be held Thursday and Friday to celebrate the reopening of the rooms, which were closed for months for renovations.

Nov 1, 2006

SERA study seeks causes of rheumatoid arthritis

Identifying the causes of rheumatoid arthritis is the focus of a new study at UNMC being conducted by James O’Dell, M.D., UNMC professor of internal medicine and chief of the rheumatology and immunology section. The five-year study is called SERA — Studies of the Etiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Oct 6, 2006

Dr. Plotkin unafraid to blaze new trails

Horacio Plotkin, M.D., doesn’t mind being called a medical maverick. The assistant professor of pediatrics has developed a reputation for looking at bone-density treatment in unconventional ways.

Sep 27, 2006

UNMC researcher presents at international conference

A pilot study, conducted by UNMC researcher Dr. Susan Swindells, is the first to show that select patients infected with HIV can maintain complete viral suppression when they switch from standard triple-drug therapy to single-drug therapy.

Aug 14, 2006

Genetic disorder yields imperfect bones

When Terry (Lukavsky) Wiese was growing up, broken bones were as common as stubbed toes in her family. It wasn’t that the Lukavsky children were particularly careless or rough, they just happened to break a lot of bones. The genetic defect is called Osteogenesis Imperfecta and is the focus of this week’s 15th Biennial National Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Omaha.

Jul 19, 2006

Study looks at wheat allergies in infants

A study released in this month’s journal Pediatrics issues a strong challenge to the notion that babies should be exclusively breastfed, and not given any solid foods, during the first six months of life. Jill Poole, M.D., assistant professor in the pulmonary, critical care, sleep and allergy section of the department of internal medicine at UNMC, is lead author of the study.

Jun 6, 2006

Common anti-convulsant drug may slow progression of dementia

Researchers have found that a common anticonvulsant drug improved cognitive function and appeared to restore nerve cells in the brains of patients with HIV-related dementia. The results of the Phase I clinical trial are published in the March issue of the scientific journal, “Neurology.”

Mar 13, 2006

Study shows pain relief possible from dietary supplements

Results of a National Institutes of Health funded trial show the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin work as well or better in relieving knee pain from moderate to severe osteo-arthritis than standard prescription therapy.

Feb 23, 2006