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OMAHA, Neb.– Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Public Safety Alert warning Americans of the alarming increase in the lethality and availability of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. DEA’s Public Safety Alert, the first in six years, seeks to raise public awareness of a significant nationwide surge in counterfeit pills that are mass-produced by criminal drug networks in labs, deceptively marketed as legitimate prescription pills, and are killing unsuspecting Americans at an unprecedented rate.

With 18+ hour workdays, the stress of the weather, markets, and limited healthy, one-handed dining options, it's easy to put health on the back burner during the busy seasons of planting and harvest. Here are some tips for making healthy choices during harvest, planting, as well as year round.

Throughout the pandemic, scammers have tried to turn miseries into opportunities for thievery. AARP reports that more than 601,000 consumers complained of scams related to COVID-19 and stimulus payments. The cost to these individuals has been $558.7 million.

Fall is a season of transition and that includes your garden. Make the most of beautiful fall days to enjoy your garden and prepare your landscape for the winter ahead.

The Nebraska Capitol is undergoing a 20-week-long restoration process expected to be completed by mid-November. The project is the second restoration effort since the Capitol was built in 1922.

School is in session, the days are getting shorter and there is a cool, crisp feeling in the evening air. Fall is coming and bringing National Pumpkin Month with it. An autumn staple of American culture and cuisine, pumpkins are grown and enjoyed all over the world.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13 NIV Very few people have any sense or recollection of the time before they were born. Perhaps this is because we simply didn’t exist, but it is also possible that our souls or spirits existed before our birth and that we have no memory of this prior existence.

September is suicide prevention awareness month and is a good time to bring to light the mental health crisis that has grown in every community since the beginning of the pandemic. While mental health struggles have always existed, we are seeing more and more people speaking out about the issues that used to remain in the dark.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have published data in a top scientific journal that may lead to a novel, long-acting treatment for both HIV and Hepatitis B (HBV). The article, “Transformation of tenofovir into stable ProTide nanocrystals with long-acting pharmacokinetic profiles,” is published today in Nature Communications.

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded the University of Nebraska Medical Center the largest research grant in its history. The Great Plains Institutional Development Award program for Clinical and Translational Research (IDeA-CTR) this month received a five-year, $20.3 million research grant.