Health

Ebola has ‘upper hand’ says US health official

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Ebola still has the “upper hand” in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, a top […]

Business

Mississippi confirms 2 tuberculosis cases at Tupelo casinos

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — State health regulators confirm they’re investigating two cases of tuberculosis affecting two casinos in Tunica County. The Mississippi State Department of Health, in a news release Thursday, said the two cases […]

Health

Liberian security forces seal slum to halt Ebola

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Security forces deployed Wednesday to enforce a quarantine around a slum in the Liberian capital, stepping up the government’s fight to stop the spread of Ebola and unnerving residents. […]

Entertainment

Aniston, Hamm, Hudson set to Stand Up to Cancer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Aniston, Jon Hamm, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland want to connect with you about cancer. They are among the stars slated to appear on “Stand Up to Cancer,” […]

Health

Yazoo County resident dies from West Nile virus

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — West Nile Virus has claimed its first Mississippi victim of 2014. The state Department of Health said Tuesday that a Yazoo County resident died from the mosquito-borne illness earlier this month, […]

Health

Ebola kills top Liberian doctor, American infected

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — One of Liberia’s most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, officials said Sunday, and an American physician was being treated for the deadly virus, highlighting the risks facing health […]

Health

Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don’t give much thought to each year’s renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans […]

Health

Mississippi reports one new case of mosquito-borne chicungunya virus

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi State Department of Health is confirming one new human case of chikungunya (chih-kihn-GUHN’-yuh) virus. Health officials say in a news release the newest case occurred in a resident who […]

Health

Number of people with HIV unchanged since 2012

By MARIA CHENG LONDON (AP) — The number of people living with HIV worldwide has remained virtually unchanged in the past two years and AIDS-related deaths are at their lowest since peaking almost a decade ago, […]