Floods, Rainfall Bring Abundance of Mosquitoes to Nebraska This Summer

By Emily White
After a spring marked with flooding and heavy rainfall, Nebraska is seeing a higher than usual population of mosquitoes, though no cases of West Nile virus have been reported as of yet.
Read MoreUNMC Earns Record Amount for Research

By Ryan Robertson
The $115.1 million will be used to fund a wide range of research projects, from how to care for people with Ebola, to ways to treat and prevent staph infections, even new ways of treating cancer.
Read MoreIntegrated Behavioral Health

By Grant Gerlock
Making mental health part of physical wellness is the goal of a groups of behavioral health providers in western Nebraska. They’re reaching out to patients at rural medical clinics to provide close to home.
Read MoreHealth care restructuring focuses on prevention

By Fred Knapp
In communities across Nebraska, there’s an increasing emphasis in health care on prevention rather than cure. One clinic in Lexington is trying to save money and increase wellness.
Read MoreYoung and Overweight: An Omaha school battles youth obesity

By Mike Tobias
Omaha, NE – In Nebraska and throughout the country, schools have become the frontline in the battle against youth obesity.
Read MoreSmoking key to closing racial gap in lung cancer in Nebraska

By Grant Gerlock
Lincoln, NE – Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in Nebraska and across the country, and it affects blacks at a higher rate than whites.
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