Health

SEVILLE, Spain — The parents of a 10-year-old boy suffering from a rare disease have compared it to going through mourning as they “buried the dream of a healthy son” and woke up to the new […]

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer, accounting for half of all primary brain cancers. It has a 40 percent survival rate after a year and just 5 percent after five years, even […]

he state of Mississippi has now administered 1.32 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine to residents, according to the state health department. As of Monday, 815,673 people have received at least one vaccine dose, and […]

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi legislators were meeting Saturday to negotiate final details of a state budget for the year that begins July 1. The state-funded portion of the […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On a cold January morning, Lilian Montoya drove from her house to a Covid-19 testing center in Anchorage, Alaska. Her husband had tested positive for the disease a couple of days before, as […]

POLLESTRES, France — After the French authorities limited the compensation for pregnant moms who were given a dangerous epilepsy drug, a French victims’ association said Europe should be “ashamed.” Depakine, the drug used to treat […]

En un país como México, donde los empleos escasean y las personas mayores muchas veces no cuentan con apoyo, la pandemia ha alterado una de sus fuentes de ingresos más confiables. Muchas personas ‘de la […]

Considered Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, midwifery has contributed much to obstetrical knowledge. In Mexico, it is a centuries-old tradition. Midwives were highly respected figures in pre-Hispanic Mexico and still are among indigenous communities. The […]

By CALEB MCCLUSKEY, Enterprise-Journal MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) _ Neither rain, snow nor waterless pipes could prevent Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center from helping patients in need, as employees carried buckets of water drawn from a […]