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The (Ahem) Flu Shot

There are lots of reasons people don’t get flu shots. Reason #1: Because one time, their second cousin’s Grandma’s mailman got the flu from the flu shot.  As UNMC’s infectious disease specialist Dr. Mark Rupp will tell you, this is one of many flu shot fables. Consider Dr. Rupp one of these guys: And Reason […]

Oct 25, 2012

Dr. Haorah and the tiger

Researchers at UNMC like to tout the odd jobs they held before they became academic elites. Forklift operator. Punk rocker. James Haorah, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, was a buffalo herder. In the remote Ukhrul district (you can’t even find his home village, Khamasom, on Google maps) of northeast […]

Oct 19, 2012

Reach out and touch someone in Living Anatomy

In case you were wondering whether Living Anatomy might have any relevance beyond medicine and academics, Robert Binhammer, Ph.D., offers up a real-life lesson in CSI. Anatomy can easily tell investigators the difference between homicide and suicide, Dr. Binhammer said. You see, strangling results in fracture of the hyoid bone, while hanging does not. The […]

Oct 15, 2012

Happily ever after, a UNMC romantic comedy

Tao Li, M.D., couldn’t believe his luck. He’d gone to the Student Life Center, to get his picture taken, for his UNMC ID badge. And there, also getting her ID, was a beautiful girl. And she smiled at him. That smile! Had another woman in the history of the world ever smiled like that? “It’s […]

Oct 9, 2012