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Each day, nearly 3,200 people younger than 18 years of age smoke their first cigarette. If smoking continues at the current rate among youth in this country, 5.6 million of today’s Americans under the age of 18 - or about 1 in every 13 young people - could die prematurely from a smoking-related illn…

Like mother, like daughter. Or is it like daughter, like mother? That's a question Lisa Kessler and daughter Cassandra haven't quite pinned down.  The mother-daughter duo graduated together from Nebraska Methodist College on Dec. 14 with their Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees.  Both of t…

OMAHA – Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center Breast Care Center has been granted a three-year accreditation designation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program administered by the American College of Surgeons.  Methodist was the first in Nebraska to be accredited i…

Registered nurse Haiden Brand, 24, was driving home about 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 when a crash happened in front of her on westbound I-80 near 72nd Street. She got out of her car and tended to a 60-year-old man whose car was wedged between a semitrailer and a concrete median. He forced his way out of…

Patients still are having surgery and getting the medications they need, but several area hospitals say they are having to make some adjustments in how drugs are administered in the face of a national shortage of certain types of intravenous fluids. The American Hospital Association noted in a bul…

It’s a homecoming of sorts for Dr. Andrew Coughlin, a specialist in dealing with cancer of the head and neck. The Council Bluffs native recently opened a clinic at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital. "We want everybody in Council Bluffs and southwest Iowa to have access to good head and neck ca…

Forty years ago John Fraser’s graduate school professors warned that the health care industry was about to change. Today, after all that time, Fraser said, a health care overhaul is perhaps 15 percent underway, but has the momentum to turn the industry 180 degrees — switching from incentives that …

If you’ve been wandering the pharmacy medicine aisle, wondering which pain medication is right for you, you’re definitely not alone. So many of my patients ask me, “with all of the choices out there, how do I find the right medicine for relief?” While every situation is different, finding the ri…

Dr. Ralph Hauke, MD, FACP, began his medical career as a primary care physician, however a personal family experience and exciting research opportunities turned his sights on oncology. Dr. Hauke's practice with Nebraska Cancer Specialists, with a location at Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center, inclu…

Santa's workshop was in full swing this week as dozens of students at Nebraska Methodist College wrapped up some holiday cheer. The effort was to make sure more than 70 children will have gifts under their tree. It's part of a program spearheaded by Director of Student Support Services at Nebras…