Health

MINNEAPOLIS (Feb. 12, 2009) – UnitedHealthcare and the American Stroke Association are encouraging African Americans to reduce their risk of stroke by tracing their family health history with the Shape Your Family History Tree. The […]

WASHINGTON – The House overwhelmingly approved a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, giving President Barack Obama a much-needed win on health care and taking a first step toward his promise of […]

Monica Land Contributing Writer Jake thought he had finally found the girl of his dreams. He and Brenda met through an online personal ad and she was everything he’d hoped for in a woman. After […]

The Mississippi Association of the Deaf will be holding their 2nd Annual Deaf Symposium on Saturday Jan. 10.  The symposium will be an all day event starting at 8 a.m and ending at 4:30 p.m. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]