University of Nebraska Medical Center News

The study has shown a good safety profile with no drug-related serious adverse events to date.

If you don't like what's being said, the saying goes, change the conversation. For the past several years, the agency that oversees the nation's residency programs - the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education - has been mired in discussions dealing with resident work hours .

The $370 million project that's about to rise over Saddle Creek Road will bring a new level of patient care and status to the community.

Dr. Joe Stothert snaps a photo of his wife, Jean, just before her installation Monday as Omaha's new mayor.

Residents of Omaha and those who live near the city benefit from being in the center of a regional hub for medical services.

Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is immediately available in a basic neuroscience laboratory with direct translational applications for .

Forty-seven future community leaders graduated from Leadership Omaha, a program of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce.

A study by a University of Nebraska Medical Center researcher revealed that unauthorized immigrants have lower health care expenditures compared to legal residents, naturalized citizens and U.S. natives.

Undocumented immigrants have lower healthcare expenditures than legal residents, naturalized citizens and people born in the United States, researchers say.

Dr. Stephen Klasko , dean of USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, has withdrawn from consideration as chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Many arthritis specialists persist in prescribing expensive brand-name drugs when generics work as well over the long term, an Omaha physician reported this week in a key medical journal.

In a large U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs cooperative blinded study that compared the effectiveness of drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis, researchers found that the use of less-expensive combination disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs produced the same clinical benefits as much more-expensive biological treatment.

Newer, costlier treatment for rheumatoid arthritis appears no better than an older, less-expensive regimen for people who don't respond to the first-line drug methotrexate, a new study suggests.

Denise Stange shows off the features of her backyard garden near 96th Street and West Center Road as part of the Munroe-Meyer Guild's Garden Walk.

The huge tents were set up in a pasture, a sellout crowd ready to raise funds for cancer research was on hand and the fun was on for the 2013 Cattlemen's Ball.

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , an international medical society, honored Douglas W. Martin, MD, FACOEM, with the ACOEM Meritorious Service Award.

A finalist for the chancellor's post at the University of Nebraska Medical Center helped his medical school become a comprehensive cancer center, a designation sought by leaders at UNMC.

Ground was broken on the new $323-million Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, designed by HDR, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Nebraska, US.

A University of Nebraska Medical Center researcher has determined that the investigational drug Eritoran used in a large clinical trial to treat a severe and often deadly infection known as sepsis did not reduce mortality.

Twelve students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry received a total of $1,100 in cash awards at the 27th Annual Professionals Day and 46th Annual Student Scientific Program.