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UNMC study results encouraging for women with recurrent ovarian cancer

Combination treatment strategy shows promise in phase I clinical study

Jan 22, 2014

Adam Karpf, Ph.D.

UNMC LiveGreen: Green U award winners announced

The awards are given for Innovation and Implementation; Volunteering; Education and Promotion, and Waste Reduction

Jan 21, 2014

Seven Doctors Project presents readings today

Reading is a fundraiser for the physician and health care worker creative writing workshop.

Jan 21, 2014

New advisory board named for clinical enterprise

Board to oversee The Nebraska Medical Center, UNMC Physicians
and Bellevue Medical Center.

Jan 21, 2014

Bradley Britigan, M.D., dean of the UNMC College of Medicine and president of the clinical enterprise, will be a member of the advisory board.

MLK speaker: We are all connected

Fight to end racial inequality continues today.

Jan 21, 2014

New infection control recommendations could make white coats obsolete

Infection control experts issue guidance on health professionals’ attire

Jan 21, 2014

UNMC’s Ira Combs to speak at Martin Luther King Jr. event

Combs’ speech is titled “King, Health Care and His Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

Jan 20, 2014

Ira Combs

Nebraska Science Festival keynote Adam Savage cancels

New speaker, ticket release date soon to be announced.

Jan 20, 2014

UNMC workforce study finds shortage of pediatric oncologists in Nebraska

A University of Nebraska Medical Center study has determined that the number of pediatric oncologists in Nebraska is lagging. In reviewing workforce numbers over a five-year period, (2008-12), Jim Stimpson, Ph.D., director of the Center for Health Policy, at the UNMC College of Public Health, found that the number of adult cancer physicians increased by […]

Jan 20, 2014

Council members get update on Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

Facility’s mission, addition of jobs draws praise from some city council members.

Jan 20, 2014

UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and Councilman Franklin Thompson.