Press Release
$75,000 gift to enhance UNMC training for rural first responders, health care
Program makes use of vehicles outfitted with realistic equipment and high-fidelity patient simulators
Nov 16, 2017

Two common mental illness meds could pose health risk for certain individuals
Combined UNMC, Vanderbilt research team reports results in leading scientific journal
Nov 14, 2017

Research suggests potential treatment for autism, intellectual disability
Findings published in Nature Neuroscience online issue
Nov 10, 2017

Cattlemen’s Ball presents Buffett Cancer Center with $904,000 check
Proceeds also used for numerous local heath care needs
Nov 9, 2017


Opioids, addiction to be focus of Nov. 14 Science Cafe
Alena Balasanova, M.D., will be featured speaker.
Nov 7, 2017

UNMC students to provide education, services during Refugee Health Fair
Free services will include flu immunizations as well as vision, dental and blood pressure and glucose level screenings.
Nov 7, 2017

UNMC researcher studying nanofiber sutures to prevent surgical site infections
$1.3 million NIH grant seeks to determine if vitamin D can produce infection-fighting peptide
Nov 6, 2017

UNMC students make summer dean’s list
To qualify for the dean’s list, students must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours and have a grade point average of 3.75 or above.
Nov 6, 2017

BHECN receives $1.1 million grant to increase behavioral health workers
Grant will provide full tuition and laptops for 70 non-traditional students each year to become community health workers and provisionally licensed addiction counselors.
Oct 30, 2017
