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Released: 19-Aug-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Pair Plan to Rebuild Nepalese School to Honor Marines
Creighton University

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.

Released: 12-Aug-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Papal Experts Available to Speak on Pope Francis' Visit
Creighton University

Creighton University has several experts available to discuss elements of Pope Francis' message and ministry.

Released: 3-Aug-2015 2:05 PM EDT
TB Researchers Earn NIH Grant to Study Potential for Shortening Treatment Course
Creighton University

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.

Released: 30-Jul-2015 5:05 PM EDT
New Study Identifies Promising Treatment for Military Veterans with PTSD
Creighton University

Attention control training reduces attention bias variability, improves PTSD symptoms

   
Released: 15-Jul-2015 9:05 AM EDT
New Harper Lee Novel Unlocks Complexities of Earlier Characters
Creighton University

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'

Released: 18-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Encyclical Opens New Theological, Scientific Dialogue on Climate Change
Creighton University

Creighton University experts say Pope Francis' new encyclical on the environment is a moral document calling for education and action.

Released: 11-Jun-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Another Look at TSA's Efficiency, Control and Transparency
Creighton University

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.

Released: 11-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Gene Modulation Method May Provide Insight on Regrowing Inner-Ear Sensory Hair Cells
Creighton University

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.

Released: 8-Jun-2015 10:05 PM EDT
Gene, Stem Cell Therapies May Have Far-Reaching Implications for Coronary Artery Grafts
Creighton University

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.

Released: 1-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Mind Over Matter
Creighton University

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.

Released: 28-May-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Nuremberg Experience a Legal, Emotional Awakening for Law Students
Creighton University

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.

Released: 7-May-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Ground Broken for 90,000-Square Foot Healthcare Facility
Creighton University

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.

Released: 6-May-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Northern Lights: Award-Winning Documentary Film Looks at Ecological, Cultural Crises for Yup'ik People
Creighton University

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.

Released: 5-May-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners Increasingly Form Backbone of Healthcare in Rural America
Creighton University

Nurses and nurse practitioners are becoming the frontline and the face of healthcare in America, especially in rural pockets of the country.

Released: 16-Apr-2015 4:05 PM EDT
April Rural Mainstreet Index Remains Negative
Creighton University

The April Rural Mainstreet Index indicates the strong U.S. dollar is impacting the Rural Mainstreet economy



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