A United Way of the Midlands LIVE UNITED Minute With Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

Published January 6, 2014

A United Way of the Midlands LIVE UNITED Minute with Ponca Tribe of Nebraska – In order to combat future substance abuse, youth counselors at the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska are working with children from multiple Native American tribes to …

Efforts underway to prevent hepatitis C outbreaks

Filed under: Drug Use Nebraska

New Hampshire officials also have been working with an advocacy group founded by a cancer patient who was infected with hepatitis C at a Nebraska clinic in 2002 when a saline bag that had been used on an infected patient was reused. Steve Langan …
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Suspended Drug Focuses Attention On Cattle-Feeding Additive

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Some 6,500 Holsteins are “finished” at this 2,000-acre Ordway, Colo., feedlot, where the growth promotion drug Zilmax is no longer used because it was pulled from the market by its manufacturer. Moves to limit a specific growth promoter have shaken the …
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