Health News
New cancer buildings to be named for CL Werner, Suzanne and Walter Scott
A groundbreaking was held today by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Major donors to the project were announced at the groundbreaking.
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Med Center’s largest project to be named the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center announced today that their cancer center project in midtown Omaha has a name: the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
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Surgeons Repair Complex Aneurysm Without Major Incision
Jamie Reynolds is a living, breathing reminder of why it's important to stay on top of your own health. The 78-year-old grandmother from Omaha says she always goes for an annual checkup. Her most recent one showed something she neither felt, nor expected – an aneurysm in her aorta.
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Nebraska Medical Center Surgeons Implant State’s First Total Artificial Heart
Greg Rathe has been here before. Waiting. This time it's much different than it was 17 years ago. Rathe, 42, said his first heart transplant in 1996 came about after a sudden onset of cardiomyopathy
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Relief From Decades of Pain – New Clinic at The Nebraska Medical Center Gives Patients New and Convenient Treatment Options
Charlene Stehlik had accepted the pain as part of her life. For more than 20 years, the pain was a constant, daily fight.
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Medical Center Experts to Provide Health Care During Skating Trials
When the best figure skaters in the United States converge on Omaha this
weekend for the 2013 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships, they
will have a world-class health care team backing them up.
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Breast Cancer Patients’ New Options For Faster Recovery
Marcia Shanahan’s regular mammogram didn’t show anything. But during a routine check-up, her doctor felt something.
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Extraordinary Care: Med Center Nurse Goes Above and Beyond to Arrange Visit
When U.S. Army Specialist Dustin Goan received orders to serve in Afghanistan, he made sure he planned for a trip to Omaha to see his grandfather Charles Kubich before he deployed. Kubich is battling ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease; Goan wanted to be sure to visit his grandfather before beginning his nine-month assignment in Afghanistan. But nature had other plans.
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Thanks and Giving: A Transplant Story
Kansas pastor Mike Bronson knew for years that a kidney transplant might
be necessary. In 2009, it became a reality. His doctors said he was in
end stage renal disease and needed a transplant.
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Rebuilding What Cancer Takes Away
When breast cancer attacked again, Sunny Reicks was unsure if she could go through the recovery process again.
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“Lucky” Heart Attack Leads to Minimally Invasive Heart Pump Surgery
Cecil Carroll considers himself a very lucky man. It may seem hard to
believe considering Cecil had a heart attack that almost certainly would
have ended his life if the heart attack had happened almost anywhere
else.
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The Nebraska Medical Center Opens New Endoscopy Center
A little more than half of the people in Nebraska who should be getting colonoscopies actually do. “There are things we know we can do something about early: prostate
cancer, breast cancer, blood sugar control, and colon cancer,” said
Grant Hutchins, MD, gastroenterologist at The Nebraska Medical Center.
“These are things in which we know we can make a difference early and
can prevent a lot of mortality down the road.”
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New, Less Invasive Option for Valve Replacement
If not for the Melody Valve, Bret Larson may have spent the week after his 28th birthday preparing for open-heart surgery. Born with a congenital heart defect, it would have been his third major operation. Instead, the Johnston, IA schoolteacher and football coach spent one night in the hospital and went back home with a new pulmonary valve in his heart, and one less scar on his chest.
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New Omaha-area network “changing how health care works”
Three of Nebraska’s most-respected health care companies have formed an innovative, high-performance network of doctors and hospitals designed to increase the quality of medical care Nebraskans receive while reducing medical and health insurance costs.
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U.S. News & World Report Ranks The Nebraska Medical Center as One of America’s Best Hospitals in Five Specialties
U.S. News and World Report surveyed the nation’s roughly 5,000 hospitals to come up with this year’s list of Best Hospitals. Fewer than 150 of those hospitals are nationally ranked. The Nebraska Medical Center is ranked in five different specialties.
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Minimally Invasive Surgery Gives Back Pain Patients New Hope
It was only a few steps. But the steps were a long time coming.
“That was tremendous! I didn’t think I could do it,” said Dianna Marshall after taking a short walk down the hall of the neurological sciences clinic. Those steps were the first she’d taken with pain or with the help of a walker in years.
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Celebration Marks 100th Heart Transplant Performed
The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC celebrated a significant milestone
June 2, by pulling together patients, physicians and medical staff to
mark the 100th heart transplant performed since the program was
re-established in 2005.
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More Than 100 Former NICU Families Attend Reunion: “A Room Full of Miracles”
“It’s a room full of miracles.” That’s how Amy Smith described the 2012 NICU Reunion, held June 2 at The Nebraska Medical Center as her infant son Maxwell slept in her arms.
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