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State Sen. Bill Kintner visits UNMC

Appropriations committee member met with campus leaders during the tour.

Sep 18, 2013

Thursday presentation discusses ‘active killer’ scenario

Sgt. Robert Wondra leads discussion as part of National Campus Safety Week.

Sep 18, 2013

Swanson Hall’s swan song

Swanson Hall was created as a place to save lives. Its demise will lay the groundwork to save even more.

Sep 17, 2013

Thoracic and GI oncology conference set for October

Registration closes Sept. 23 for conference.

Sep 17, 2013

Holland Regenerative Medicine Program promotes innovative research

Regenerative medicine – a research area that will dramatically impact health and change disease outcomes – got a big boost at UNMC with a gift from Mary and Dick Holland.

Sep 17, 2013

Health policy expert is in the house

A minimalist by nature, Jim Stimpson, Ph.D., occupies an office with no papers on the desk, no pictures on the walls.

Sep 17, 2013

Fulfilling a dream

UNMC’s emergency department research director, who died in 2012, planned to return to his native Vietnam to teach the U.S. approach to graduate medical education. He was going to improve patient care through better education in the region where he was born. He was going to make a difference.

Sep 17, 2013

Power Wheels to Makeshift Power Wheelchairs

The idea to modify cars is not new. Just look at reality shows like “Trick My Truck.”

But the concept of adapting toy cars for children with disabilities? Now, that’s novel.

Sep 17, 2013

See one, do one, teach one? Not anymore.

Instruction of the next generation of surgeons just became more high-tech with the June opening of the Dr. Wayne and Eileen Ryan Surgical Simulation Suite.

Sep 17, 2013

Antidepressants reduce depression in head and neck cancer patients

UNMC study could change guidelines for treating these cancers.

Sep 17, 2013