Health

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Technological advances in healthcare management these days are amazing. Just ask the attendees of the recent Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Mississippi Chapter Spring Conference at the Jackson Hilton Hotel. They witnessed a […]