Epilepsy commonly occurs in two groups: children born with the disease and adults who develop it due to degenerative diseases or trauma. Learn more.

We live in a noisy world, both figuratively and literally. It may surprise you the noises you’re exposed to everyday might actually damage your hearing.

Treatment and management of epilepsy continues to improve. With the right diagnosis and treatment, most patients can live a normal life. 

Alena Balasanova, MD, explains the uniqueness of our Addiction Services Program.

The prevalence of thyroid cancer is on the rise and is increasingly more common in young women. The fifth most common cancer in women, and 12th overall among both men and women, it is also one of the most treatable, with a five-year survival rate of 98.1 percent.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability in the United States. We provide some statistics, along with signs someone might have had a traumatic brain injury.

If sleep is eluding you, you are not alone. Trouble sleeping is one of the top complaints doctors hear from their patients.

What is an opioid? What is an opioid addiction? How is opioid addiction treated? Dr. Alena Balasanova, director of the Addiction Services outpatient clinic at Nebraska Medicine has the answers to these questions, including how Suboxone is used to treat those with opioid addictions.

Read a story about Kendra Jackson, and how her chronically runny nose turned out to be a cerebrospinal fluid leak. Once told it was only allergies, Doctor Schneider suspected it was a more dangerous condition.

Younger stroke patients may have different risk factors and causes of a stroke compared to older adults.