Mississippi news and information

The University of Mississippi Medical Center is launching a major expansion of a program offering smaller hospitals, clinics and other institutions electronic access to its staff and resources, a move that eventually will create 201 jobs.
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Four more states were given tentative approval to operate health insurance exchanges in partnership with the federal government on Thursday.
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A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child who is now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year.
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Outliers has to confess: We love Oscar! And we paid extra attention to one of this year's big Academy Award contenders, but not only because of its cinematic merits. It seems Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln,” which features Daniel Day-Lewis as America's 16th president, led one...
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Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says federal officials have rejected the state's proposed health insurance exchange.
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Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has the authority to establish and manage a health insurance exchange, according to a legal opinion released late Tuesday by the state attorney general's office.
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A federal judge on Friday sentenced a doctor to 20 years in prison and ordered her to repay nearly $8.2 million for fraud at a former Mississippi cancer center she ran. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III said he was "appalled" at how Dr. Meera Sachdeva treated patients at a vulnerable time of...
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Health officials say flu season is off to its earliest start in nearly 10 years — and it could be a bad one.
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Some states would see savings while others would experience cost increases as a result of the health reform law's provision to expand Medicaid, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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FORT MYERS, Fla.—Acadia Healthcare Co., Brentwood, Tenn., purchased Park Royal Hospital, Fort Myers, for about $33.4 million in cash and assumed debt. The 76-bed psychiatric hospital, which opened in March, can be expanded to 114 beds within the existing building, according to an...
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