Nebraska authorities have placed a 16-year-old girl and her eight-month old son under state foster care after she sought safe haven at an Omaha hospital but did not qualify. The unnamed mother's aunt drove her niece to the Immanuel Medical Center on Oct. 17 as she wanted to place herself under the state's Safe Haven Law, which allows parents to abandon children without getting prosecuted. The girl claimed she sought refuge because her mother emotionally abused her, withheld state money intended for the care of her son, and kicked her out of their home.

A website has been helping people with sexually-transmitted diseases conveniently and anonymously notify by e-mail sexual partners whom they may have inadvertently infected. InSpot has been used by some 30,000 people since it was launched in San Francisco in 2004 making it an innovative and effective communication channel among sex partners, according to a report published in the October issue of PLoS Medicine.

The Golden Gate Bridge, known as much for its beauty as for its notoriety as the bridge from which suicidal people jump, is destined for change. San Francisco officials have decided to put a $50 million stainless steel net under the bridge to catch, or thwart the efforts of would be jumpers.

Health officials in a Montana county issued a health advisory after the mother of two elementary school student brought a dead bat into an elementary school for a demonstration and allowed about 90 students to touch it. The mother reportedly found the dead bat in a cat's mouth, thought the bat was interesting, brought it into school and gave presentations on the bat in five classrooms, allowing students to touch the bat and giving them disinfectant wipes for their hands afterward.

Health officials are still searching for the cause of an illness that struck 49 students on a field trip last week, sending many of them to the hospital. Forty West Valley Middle School students went to the hospital Friday with vague symptoms of nausea, vomiting, dizziness and general achiness. Some children also complained of heaviness in their arms and legs, according to reports.