Health

Forrest General’s Wound Healing Center: Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting   Forrest General and the ADP are hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house for Forrest General’s new Wound Healing Center. The center, developed in partnership […]

Dear Friend of Heart, This month bears very personal significance to me. Not only are we drawing to a close a challenging year financially for both our organization as well as our country, but it […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram, one of the largest and most rigorous tests of computer-aided […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Fresh Start Christian Church is hosting its first health fair, “Fit, Faithful & Fulfilled,” on Nov. 1. The fair will be held 8 a.m.-noon at 5210 Manhattan Road (former Northside […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Stroke is the third-leading cause of death among African Americans, and more than 100,000 will suffer one this year. But African Americans can get help to reduce their stroke risk […]

Medical News Today Statement Highlights: • This is the first guidance on stroke in children from the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association. • Stroke risk, symptoms and treatment in children are different from those […]

Reuters Health NEW YORK – Sleep patterns in middle-aged women can increase their risk for stroke, researchers in the United States have found. The greatest increase in stroke risk -70 percent – was noted among […]

Did you know that there are nearly 52,000 persons in Mississippi with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia? There is an estimated 5.2 million diagnosed cases of Alzhemier’s in the United States. The operative word here […]

ATLANTA – An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health officials said June 3. Lab tests have confirmed 40 illnesses in Texas and […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Local death rates for fetuses and infants rose rapidly and immediately after startup of the Grand Gulf nuclear reactor in southwest Mississippi, a high-poverty area with an African-American majority, according […]