News Focus Channel: Local - Nebraska

Link between cervical microbiome and cancer discovered

University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:05:08 EST

Virologists associated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found a connection between certain bacteria and high-grade cervical lesions likely to become cancerous.

DOJ suit against supervised injection facility in Philadelphia a waste of resources says health law expert

Creighton University — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:05:06 EST

$500,000 grant awarded to BHECN aimed at improving adolescent mental health

University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:05:55 EST

There are plenty of evidence-based behavioral health programs aimed at helping children and adolescents, but implementing those programs can often take up to three years and sustaining them can be even more difficult once implemented.

Creighton professor and expert on TSA available for comment on government shutdown's effects on travel screenings.

Creighton University — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:05:35 EST

FDA approves first non-invasive therapy device for stress urinary incontinence

Creighton University — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:05:27 EST

New non-invasive treatment for stress urinary incontinence helps strengthen the pelvic floor, and shows more than 87 percent of patients were dry or had mild leakage after a 12-week treatment period, with 93 percent of patients experiencing improvement in just four weeks.

Creighton professor dedicated to rooting out social media's trolls

Creighton University — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:05:07 EST

An expert in online behavior and social media networks, Samer Al-khateeb, PhD, is in his first semester on the Creighton faculty and working on a book on social cyber-forensics, a field in which he's been active for several years dating back to his graduate school days at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

National study testing drug to treat graft-versus-host disease after stem cell transplants

University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 05:00:16 EST

University of Nebraska Medical Center leading national team to determine if ruxolitinib is effective for treating a certain type of graft versus host disease (GVHD) called sclerotic. The grant is funded by Incyte, a global biopharmaceutical company.

National Study Finds Gastric Bypass Most Effective Weight Loss Surgery

University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:05:24 EST

A study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that adults with severe obesity had greater initial and sustained weight loss with gastric bypass surgery compared to sleeve gastrectomy or adjustable gastric banding surgery.

Creighton Vocal Musicians Will Celebrate Marginalized Voices in This Year's Concert Offerings

Creighton University — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:05:17 EST

With a series of choral concerts this academic year, Creighton University is taking literally the initiative to bring underrepresented voices to the fore.

Aging Mice May Help Solve Mysteries Behind Age-Related Hearing Loss in Humans

Creighton University — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:55:41 EST

By comparing the changes at the cellular and molecular levels of hair cells between young and aging mice by looking for age-related changes, researchers hope to identify what causes the sensory receptor hair cells to degenerate. why age-related hearing loss occurs from high frequencies to low frequencies, determine why outer hair cells degenerate before inner hair cells.

'A Life-Giving Experience': Global Surgery Fellowship Addresses Critical Health Need

Creighton University — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:05:02 EST

After 10 weeks in Tanzania as Creighton University's inaugural Global Surgery Fellow, Kelly Shine, MD, has added a few procedures to her retinue. There have been perforated intestines -- results of untreated cases of typhoid fever and salmonella -- and a bowel obstruction that turned out to be severe appendicitis and almost proved fatal.

NorthShore University Health System highlights the potential of molecular kits for antimicrobial resistance detection using throat and rectal swabs

Streck — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:05:37 EST

NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, presented a talk titled, "Clinical utility of the Streck ARM-D Kits to detect antimicrobial resistance genes from extracts of axillary, throat and rectal swabs" at ASM Microbe 2018.

'A Dynamic Period Here'

Creighton University — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:00:58 EST

John Schalles' work is part of an expanding effort by the National Science Foundation's Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program to analyze the connections between coastal salt marshes, estuaries and offshore waters, and upstream freshwater swamps and marshes.

Nebraska Partners in Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:05:32 EST

Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges announce institute to be based at Iowa State; jointly funded by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Iowa State University.

Streck Molecular Kits Detect More Antibiotic Resistance Than Competitors

Streck — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:05:50 EST

Streck, Inc., received great interest in Streck ARM-D(r) Kits after its poster presentation on improved methodology for detection of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria at ECCMID 2018 in Madrid.

$2.6 Million Grant Looks to Improve Patient Care with RN's Enhanced Role

University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:05:29 EST

The way health care providers are paid is shifting, demanding major changes by providers. Instead of being paid for the number of patients they see and tests ordered, the system is moving toward paying providers based on patient satisfaction, good clinical outcomes and cost effectiveness.

NIH grant will give professor, undergraduates a boost in researching riboswitches

Creighton University — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:05:10 EST

Creighton University biochemistry professor Juliane Strauss-Soukup, PhD, and her lab of undergraduates, have long been looking at the functions of noncoding RNA. With a three-year NIH grant, they'll no look at a long-term goal of developing antibiological agents, including some with the potential for cancer-fighting applications.

Creighton psychological science professor's work with rats gives insight into treatment for human drug addiction

Creighton University — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:05:03 EST

Through looking at individual difference models in laboratory rat populations, Creighton University psychological science professor Dustin Stairs, PhD, and his team of undergraduate researchers are making inroads into the neuroscience of addiction and the power of social settings to help overcome a drug habit.

New study shows higher vitamin D levels could lower risk for breast cancer

Creighton University — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:05:46 EST

This study found that women with a blood level of >60 ng/ml had an 80 percent lower risk for breast cancer than those with levels of 20 ng/ml or less.

North Korea expert believes de-nuclearization should not be centerpiece of Trump-Kim summit.

Creighton University — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:05:03 EST