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The battle over cosmetic surgery is almost as old as the surgery itself. The argument gets louder when the conversation changes to breast implants.A reason many doctors say women choose to have this type of surgery is to improve their look and their confidenceDr. Katie Honz, plastic surgeon with Met…

A virus stirring worry globally reached the Omaha area Thursday, with two cases of the Zika virus reported in Douglas and Sarpy Counties. Health authorities confirmed the virus in two women in their 20s who had recently traveled to Zika-affected nations.And a person in Texas was found to have contra…

With two reported cases of the Zika virus in the Metro area, medical experts in the Omaha community are fielding lots of questions about the virus.The Methodist Infectious Disease team along with Dr. Todd Lovgren, maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Methodist Women's Hospital have taken many calls…

Women do not always experience the same heart attack symptoms that men do. Just ask Jamie Sage, 55, of Council Bluffs, who suffered a heart attack on Aug. 6, 2015, without experiencing any pain. “That evening, I walked home, and I was just sweating really, really bad,” she said. “My husband told…

The Methodist Jennie Edmundson Cancer Center held a reception this week for major donors to its $5 million capital campaign for a new linear accelerator.The event celebrated the near-completion of the vault that will contain the equipment for delivering more precise radiation therapy.“I want to than…

The glow from a sun-filled trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands disappeared when two couples returned to Nebraska in January.Omahan Marcy Kolkman is pregnant with her third child and in her third trimester. She hadn’t heard the word “Zika” until after she returned home with her husband, Dr. Paul Kolkman.…

There are many indicators of an abusive relationship, but there are more ways to get help. Anytime that there's strangulation involved, anytime there's death threats involved. Those are huge, huge indicators, and that's when you want to involve law enforcement," said Anne Boatright, coordinator of…

Omaha - Nebraska Methodist College has announced its newest Doctor of Nursing practice offering, an Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist program that will educate nurses to bridge the gap between patient and population health care. The new specialization joins ongoing family nurse practitio…

Collaboration, convenience and compassion. Time after time, I hear current and former patients use those words to describe what impresses them the most about the Methodist Jennie Edmundson Cancer Center.They talk about the collaboration between the surgeons, specialists, general physicians, pharmaci…

Sue Schroeder, OTR/L, CHT, is an occupational therapist and certified hand therapist, specializing in the treatment of upper extremity injuries. She helps patients find relief every day at Methodist Physicians Clinic HealthWest.…