Last week the legislature approved LB 1014, providing $60 million to build a new facility to train train rural health providers at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Wednesday state senators approved money to run the program under LB 792.
Researchers in North Texas developed an app that can save lives of new moms, which is in response to the high number of women who die during, or after, childbirth.
State health and environment officials have issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae at Kirkman's Cove near Humboldt in the southeastern corner of Nebraska.
A traveling medical center is examining over 400 selected Hall County residents as part of a national health survey. Results, with those from other areas, help the Center for Disease Control and Prevention prepare reports.
During the month of April, agricultural burning in Kansas and Oklahoma for the management of prairie and rangelands may affect the air quality in Nebraska.