A healthy mix of diet and exercise still goes a long way toward curbing obesity in adolescents, UMMC experts contend,...
By: Ruth Cummins, [email protected] The Mississippi Poison Control Center is experiencing a concerning increase in calls regarding children who have found and eaten marijuana-laced candies and...
By: Annie Oeth, [email protected] The collapse of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin during a Monday Night Football game Jan. 2 may seem rare, but sudden cardiac...
Today, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is confirming its 14th COVID-19 death in a child under 18. Since the first cases of COVID-19 were...
By: Ruth Cummins, [email protected]Â As her youngest of two daughters recovered in a hospital bed at home following a horrific car wreck, Ava Welborn began feeling...
by Debbie Skipper, Mississippi Today December 21, 2022 The Mississippi State Department of Health has joined an investigation into a multistate outbreak of a contagious virus...
By: Danny Barrett Jr., [email protected] Research in the fight against breast cancer is a daily grapple with the task of matching the right patient to the...
by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today December 16, 2022 After months of negotiations during which tens of thousands of Mississippians were unable to access services at the...
by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today December 8, 2022 As the Mississippi health care crisis worsens and threatens to imminently shutter hospitals in the Mississippi Delta, the...
By: Ruth Cummins, [email protected] You’re at the hours-long tailgating before the big game, sitting in a bag chair next to the long food table that’s a...