TeleHealth in America: Wicker Uses Mississippi System as Example for the Country
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Telehealth’s progress in Mississippi could be an example for the whole country to get care to people who live in rural areas. Sen. Roger...
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If You’re Going to Smoke Spice, You Might Want to Think Twice
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JACKSON, Miss.–Having a Scooby Snax smoke? Some people call spice that, or even Anthrax. Whatever you call it, spice can be dangerous and the doctors...
Mississippi Native Woodward Chosen to Lead Health Affairs, School at UMMC, Current Director to Retire
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JACKSON, Miss.–The state’s leading research hospital, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will be headed up by Mississippi native Dr. LouAnn Woodward, announced the hospital Wednesday....
Groundbreaking Mississippi Doctor Aaron Shirley Dies at 81
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PHOTO: University of Miss. Medical Center JACKSON, Miss.–For several years Dr. Aaron Shirley was the only black pediatrician in the state. In 1965 he was...
Prayers for Peyton: Lincoln Co. Football Player Still Critical After Friday Injury
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PHOTO Courtesy: Facebook LINCOLN COUNTY, Miss.–An injury Friday night during a high school football game has left Peyton Flowers critical, with swelling on the brain...
Car Full of Teens Hit By Truck, Four People Die in the Wreck
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BROOKHAVEN, Miss.–A wreck in Brookhaven killed four teens Friday night. It happened when the car tried to cross Hwy. 84 when a truck was coming....
Charged With Murdering His BAby: Clay County Teenage Father Jailed
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CLAY COUNTY, Miss.–Charged with killing his own child, Charles Mullins, just 18, of Clay County, is still locked up and has not gotten bond. Sheriff...
Ebola Scares in Mississippi: Three Hospitals Have Scares This Week, No Ebola Here
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VICKSBURG, Miss.–A person walked in to River Region Medical Center in Vicksburg Monday, saying they had had contact with a person who recently got back...
Doctor: Wilbanks’ Death Was Rare Occurrence, Nothing Could Have Been Done Different
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JACKSON, Miss.–Heat was a factor in Walker Wilbanks’ Monday death, but his doctor said at a news conference Monday afternoon that the Jackson Prep football...
Daughter Survives Gunshot to the Head from Mom, Mother Dies
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NEW HEBRON, Miss.–The murder suicide attempt in Simpson County Monday night where a mom shot her grown daughter, then herself, may have been over a...