A new H1N1 vaccine is entering a definitive round of testing this month. Researchers hope to establish its ability to ward off the virus. If tests yield results as expected, hog farmers could begin using the new vaccine as early as the end of the year.
Amrit Kandel and Biraj Pokharel, natives of Nepal now living in Omaha, Neb., are raising money to rebuild a school devastated by last spring's earthquakes and honor six Marines killed while on a humanitarian mission in Nepal.
Creighton University has several experts available to discuss elements of Pope Francis' message and ministry.
Creighton researcher Jeff North, Ph.D., is part of a team looking at the interaction of an indole-based drug and a TB protein that may revolutionize treatment.
Attention control training reduces attention bias variability, improves PTSD symptoms
In the last decade, there’s been an explosion in treating PAD using angioplasty and stenting – a minimally invasive procedure in which the patient is awake and usually leaves the hospital the next day. Stents, small tubular metal devices that doctors put in diseased arteries to keep them open, work well in the heart, but often fail miserably in the leg arteries. Though peripheral artery disease stents may generally work for many patients, there is significant room for improvement as many patients require repeat procedures in as little as one or two years, said Jason MacTaggart, M.D. A national study estimated the cost at $21 billion a year.
A Creighton professor explores how her own novel, written partly as a response to Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' compares to Lee's new 'Go Set a Watchman'
Parents take out second mortgages, give up jobs and liquidate their retirement savings to help their young athletes, musicians and writers reach top competitive levels
Creighton University experts say Pope Francis' new encyclical on the environment is a moral document calling for education and action.
Despite pitfalls evolving into media frenzies, TSA — an outgrowth of the nation’s security push in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — remains able to do an at least passably effective job, though perhaps not for the most suspected reasons.
Sonia Rocha-Sanchez, Ph.D., an associate professor of oral biology in the Creighton University School of Dentistry, and an expert in the biology and physiology of the inner ear, has developed a method to temporally modify the expression of the retinoblastoma-1 gene in mice. Modulation of the RB1 gene can allow for the regrowth of cells in the inner ear and potentially restore hearing and balance caused by the loss of sensory hair cells.
Lung cancer patients with comorbid conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, or congestive heart failure have a higher risk of death than lung cancer patients without comorbid conditions. The prevalence of these comorbidities is higher in older lung cancer patients than patients who are younger. As the population of the United States ages, there will be a higher number of lung cancer patients with comorbidities at diagnosis. An estimated 74 percent of patients have one or more comorbidities. More than 50 percent of those with comorbidities had pulmonary disease, while 16 percent had diabetes, and 13 percent had congestive heart failure.
Devendra K. Agrawal, Ph.D., a researcher at Creighton University, is exploring the potential for gene and stem cell therapy in coronary artery bypass grafts to prevent re-occlusion in the grafted vein.
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez is a run field manager who coordinates experiments that smash particles together at near the speed of light.
Three Creighton University School of Medicine residents have won the school's first-ever championship in the Jeopardy-style quiz competition sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association.
Creighton University law students are again preparing for a trip to Nuremberg, Germany, site of the trials that brought to justice the Nazi war criminals who perpetrated the Holocaust.
Once used as surgical anesthetics, ether compounds are used as fuel additives and as components of pharmaceutical drugs, polymers and other synthetic materials. University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Patrick Dussault is exploring a method to create ethers by combining organic peroxides and carbanions. Preliminary results indicate the peroxide to ether conversion can be developed into a reliable and high-yielding reaction. Dussault also will create a website resource for safe handling of peroxides, which can be dangerously unstable.
A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology to digitally preserve four major collections of parasite specimens donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the past five years. The specimens represent the work of four top-ranked U.S. scientists who spent decades collecting and studying worms, fleas, lice and other parasites from around the world.
New facility will have family medicine, an imaging center, pediatrics, women’s health services, psychiatry and physical therapy, along with an emergency room and a 24-hour pharmacy.The new center will focus on a team approach to healthcare.
The Creighton Backpack Journalism Team ventured to Alaska last summer to document the ravages of climate change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Beyond the ecological catastrophe, they found a people struggling to maintain an ancient way of life.
Nurses and nurse practitioners are becoming the frontline and the face of healthcare in America, especially in rural pockets of the country.
The April Rural Mainstreet Index indicates the strong U.S. dollar is impacting the Rural Mainstreet economy
The Spanish government's official recognition of the rule of Francisco Franco as a dictatorship opens up new conversations for the nation, its history and its newest generations.
A new study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Metropolitan State University in Denver shows that cultural perceptions and stereotypes can make it challenging for bisexuals to reveal their sexual orientation to friends and family.
AMC's "Mad Men," which begins airing its final episodes Sunday, has shown how the Golden Age of Advertising shifted power from the account execs to the artists.
Dr. Henry Lynch, chair of preventive medicine at Creighton University and the discoverer of a syndrome related to linkages between breast and ovarian cancers, weighs in on the pre-emptive surgery option taken by Angelina Jolie Pitt.
Researchers are challenging the intake of vitamin D recommended by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine saying their Recommended Dietary Allowance for vitamin D underestimates the need by a factor of ten.
The focus will be on Ebola genomics and the study of the next generation of DNA sequencing technologies used to study the disease.
John Calvert, Ph.D., a historian at Creighton University, discusses the foundations of Middle Eastern nationhood coming out of World War I.
The more copies of a genome a cell holds, the more adaptable those cells are. This may have implications for cancer's evolution and adaptation.
Preventing HIV is a major focus in three NIH grant-funded projects undertaken by Creighton University professors.
Cole Crawford, a senior English and computer science major at Creighton University, discovered a long lost poem manuscript by 19th-century Scottish poet Robert Tannahill.
Theologians book offers insight into the life of Fr. Rutilio Grande, S.J., who may be headed for sainthood.
Creighton professor and novelist offers thoughts on the new Lee novel due in July.
An innovative training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center using lightly embalmed cadavers helps better prepare surgeons in training and serves as a national model. Lightly embalmed cadavers more realistically mimic actual surgeries and allow surgeons in training to walk before they run.
Over two and a half years, researchers will develop a formulation of a molecule called Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) into an intramuscular injection, and prove its safety, effectiveness and dosing in animal models. They also will demonstrate its ability in dried form to retain activity for at least two years, and produce the substance for other research studies. BChE, which is found in human plasma, is a bioscavenger and when it finds nerve agent in the blood, it deactivates it. Following successful results, researchers will seek Food and Drug Administration approval followed by commercial production. Once research is complete, making it available for commercial use could take two to four years.
The female hormones estrogen and estradiol may help ward off the effects of lead exposure for young girls, explaining why boys, are shown to suffer more often from the cognitive disabilities linked to lead.
Monthly nine-state Mid-America Business Conditions Index points to growth in the next six months.
Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., the man who correctly theorized that free radicals cause aging and that antioxidants can reduce the effects of free radicals, died Tuesday at the age of 98.
Two Creighton graduate students are using Big Data models in hopes of helping law enforcement crack down on human trafficking.
A Creighton professor's physics of toys course examines how simple toys can demonstrate complex scientific principles.
The five-year grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to measure best practices across existing EHR systems, listen and learn what providers believe to be the ideal system, then build and test a model EHR system that can improve patient care.
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