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Cholesterol: Know your numbers!

Blood cholesterol is one of the most important markers of heart disease risk. High cholesterol increases your risk for heart attacks and strokes. Increasingly, we realize you need to know more than just your total cholesterol number.

Oct 17, 2006

Munroe-Meyer board president Goranson killed in car wreck

Carol Goranson, president of the Munroe-Meyer Institute Operating Board, died Thursday in an automobile accident.

Oct 17, 2006

About $1.6 million raised for Eppley Cancer Center

Preliminary numbers are in and, predictably, Friday’s Ambassador of Hope Gala proved to be a resounding success.

Oct 17, 2006

McGlade accepts post in UNMC College of Medicine Dean’s Office

Mike McGlade has joined the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Dean’s Office as senior associate dean for administration and director of finance. The promotion, which was effective Sept. 1, is another step in formalizing the new administrative structure in the dean’s office.   “This is part of the ongoing redevelopment of the […]

Oct 17, 2006

McGlade joins restructured COM dean’s office

Mike McGlade has joined the College of Medicine Dean’s Office as senior associate dean for administration and director of finance. The promotion, which was effective Sept. 1, is another step in formalizing the new administrative structure in the dean’s office.

Oct 16, 2006

What it means to be a cancer survivor

Cancer survivors at Friday’s news conference with Tom Brokaw share what it meant to live through the disease.

Oct 16, 2006

UNMC College of Dentistry Class of 2006 score one for the record books

UNMC College of Dentistry Class of 2006 score one for the record books The Dental Hygiene Class of 2006 not only had a 100% pass rate on their Dental Hygiene National Board examinations, but their average score was #1 in the entire U.S., among 256 Dental Hygiene programs. “Congratulations to the students, as well as […]

Oct 16, 2006

Brokaw: ‘Places like this bring hope’

UNMC’s Eppley Cancer Center is a place where hope lives, legendary newsman Tom Brokaw said Friday.

Oct 13, 2006

Bellevue hospital plans moving along

Although the ground at the southwest corner of Highway 370 and 25th Street remains undisturbed, plans continue to move forward with the Bellevue Medical Center.

Oct 13, 2006

Top nanoscientists come out for UNMC-led convention

About 180 people, including some of the world’s finest nanoscientists, were
in Omaha this week for the 4th International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery
Symposium hosted by UNMC.

Oct 13, 2006