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Children, parents find ‘second chance’ through transplantation

A devastating hurricane forced Dusti Holloway and her family north. Health issues that started at birth led Elizabeth Taibel to Omaha. Two little girls — two families — faced challenges that brought them to the medical center for a transplant.

Jul 11, 2006

Transplant survivors gather for annual reunion

Henry Mollett is celebrating his second chance at life. Today, the 68-year-old Council Bluffs man is 100 pounds lighter and feeling 30 years younger after receiving a liver transplant at The Nebraska Medical Center in April 2005. Meet some of the individuals who attended this weekend’s transplant reunion.

Jul 11, 2006

Patients with West Nile needed for clinical trial

Roger and Nancy DeBlauw began last summer like any other, enjoying time on their farm in Crofton, Neb. But their world changed in late July 2005 when Roger became critically ill after contracting West Nile virus. Now, he is participating in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical trial of a potential treatment. The trial is being conducted regionally by UNMC.

Jul 10, 2006

UNMC geriatrician elected president of the American Geriatrics Society

Jane Potter, M.D., director of the geriatric medicine program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been elected president of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), the nation’s top association of health specialists and researchers on the elderly.   Dr. Potter is chief of the Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology at UNMC and holds the […]

Jul 10, 2006

Medical student’s charity golf tournament honors dad

Aaron Braun is walking in his father’s charitable footsteps. The fourth-year UNMC medical student is days away from teeing off his third charity golf tournament in memory of his father, Marvin, who died of leukemia in 1996.

Jul 7, 2006

Munroe-Meyer Guild raises $39,000 at garden walk, faire

The Munroe-Meyer Guild sold nearly 1,900 tickets and raised $39,000 at this year’s Garden Walk and Garden Faire.

Jul 7, 2006

Dr. Foxall retires from nursing profession

Martha Foxall, Ph.D., has dedicated her life to nursing education. She will retire today – after the summer class she teaches ends – with a 54-year investment in the nursing profession. The past 26 years have been in the UNMC College of Nursing.

Jul 7, 2006

Regents chairman releases statement regarding Hergert decision

James E. McClurg, chairman of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, released a statement today (Friday) regarding the Nebraska Supreme Court’s ruling that C. David Hergert be removed from the office of regent.

Jul 7, 2006

UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center physicians rank among America’s Top Doctors

Full-time faculty at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and physicians affiliated with its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, made the fifth edition of “America’s Top Doctors.” Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publishes the books to help consumers find good physicians. The book includes the top 1 percent of specialists and sub-specialists for patients who can […]

Jul 7, 2006

Steve Pitkin appointed assistant dean, UNMC College of Nursing Kearney Division

Steve Pitkin has been appointed assistant dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Kearney Division. Pitkin has been serving as interim assistant dean, and has been teaching nursing since 1979, first with Kearney State College Department of Nursing, and then with UNMC when Kearney State became part of the University of […]

Jul 7, 2006