Health

Drug therapies, vaccine testing and experimental treatments to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have spread globally. In Pakistan, convalescent plasma therapy has been actively hyped. Public appeals from health experts around the world and internet initiatives […]

When the late Geraldine Ferraro took her place on a vice-presidential debate stage in 1984, the United States was only a few years removed from normalizing relations with the People’s Republic of China. Nine presidential […]

A company that operates the East Mississippi Correctional Facility said Monday that an inmate from that prison has died in a Jackson hospital. Otis C. Taylor, 51, was being treated for an undisclosed illness at […]

A lighthouse on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has reopened to the public, after being shuttered six months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tours of the Round Island Lighthouse in Pascagoula are available every Friday and […]

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists […]

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19, the state Supreme […]

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi is planning to go ahead with its annual state fair in early October with new rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. […]

The Great Andamanese live in the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean about 1,500 miles south of New Delhi. The government classifies the Great Andamanese as a particularly vulnerable tribal group or PVTG. […]

American Airlines announced it will slash 40,000 U.S.-based jobs through October due to a sharp decline in air travel since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The cost-cutting move will reduce the mainline staff of […]

Amazon’s plan to hire 133,000 new workers flies in the face of sharp layoffs and company closures that have eliminated tens of thousands of American jobs since March. The national unemployment rate fell to 8.4% […]