By: Dr. Donald Dare   As awareness to the nation’s opioid epidemic continues to gain attention, health care professionals are rethinking how to go about treating long-term pain; and thanks to significant research in recent years, we now understand that chronic pain is complex and varied, so it can neither be easily diagnosed nor solved.…

Twelve American Red Cross workers from Mississippi are responding to Hurricane Florence and several others are on standby to deploy. The Red Cross is preparing for a large relief effort across multiple states as Hurricane Florence continues its march toward the East Coast. More than 700 disaster workers are in route to the region to help. Below…

Dr. Michal Senitko, right, performs a medical thoracoscopy on patient Wayne Simpson in coordination with Dr. James T. Williams, left, and Dr. Trey Abraham, Main Content Procedure eases complications related to fluid around lungs Published on Thursday, August 23, 2018 Media Contact: Ruth Cummins As people live longer with more advanced stages of cancer or chronic…

In the latter half of 2017, more than 50% of all homes for sale in the Mississippi housing market were ranked in the top third of home values. While this is great news for those looking to buy, you might also want to know that there are more buyers than homes in Mississippi today, meaning that…

On Fridays during football season, many of Mississippi’s high school teams have an athletic trainer on the sidelines, or a team physician, or both. And many teams have neither. That inequity can mean the difference between life and death for players with a suspected concussion, and not just on the football field. Athletes in all…

VSA Mississippi and BRAVO! Restaurant will sponsor a benefit for the Community Art Group on the balconies of BRAVO! at Highland Village Shops in Jackson. There will be over one hundred pieces of art on display, and all are available for purchase. Thirty plus artists with disabilities from the group will exhibit their works on…

Ten students in Bradley Pope’s Personal Finance class at Sumner Hill Junior High School are jumping into the virtual business world. These students will be competing in CapsimCore, a business simulation that puts them in charge of running their own company. The ten students are split into two teams, each running their own virtual business.…

Mississippi Governor and First Lady Bryant along with members of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Mississippi Board presented Nucor Steel of Jackson with the National Children’s Alliance Community Philanthropy Leadership Award. “Nucor is doing amazing things for the abused children of Mississippi through their partnership with CACM,” First Lady Bryant commented, “It was a true…