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Don’t understand Medicare and it’s enrollment time? Here’s help!
LAUREL — South Central Regional Medical Center, in partnership with Covington County Hospital, Magee General Hospital and Simpson General Hospital, will host a free educational series titled “Medicare & You” to help eligible individuals better understand the upcoming Medicare enrollment period. The sessions, which are open to...
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CHIN hosts Kidney Care lunch and learn, community health improvement network
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Local doctor speaks about flu vaccines
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - As fall begins, the flu and cold season in the Pine Belt already is underway. “There have been a few cases in this area, as well as other parts of the state, as I’ve spoken with my colleagues,” said Dr. W. Mark Horne, South Central Family Medicine Clinic internal medicine/chief medical officer.
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Local pharmacists urge vaccines before flu season
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Meridian pharmacist passionate about use of vaccines to prevent diseases
Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our state’s past, present and future. You can read more about the section here. I was born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi just four minutes from the Walgreens...
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Game of the Week: Choctaw Central hosts Cherokee Central
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) -Hurricane Katrina, and in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 This series between Choctaw Central and Cherokee Central, in North Carolina, began back in 1991. They’ve only missed three years - in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, and in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19. The Warriors...
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Local pharmacists urge vaccines before flu season
UNION, Miss. (WTOK) - With flu season just around the corner, pharmacies are starting to offer flu vaccines, and encouraging people to get them. Annual flu shots are important, as they protect from the three most common strains of Influenza that tend to spread every year. Tesa Quinn with Quinn’s...
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Meridianites express opinions on new flu shot or COVID vaccine
As the fall season approaches, so do allergies, so Twin States News wanted to know what people thought about getting a new flu shot or the new COVID-19 vaccine. “I know there’s a lot of people that don’t take them that might should take them,” said Karen Anderson.
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Kosciusko grad joins North Mississippi Health Services Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Team
Kosciusko High School graduate Dr. Dakota C. King has joined North Mississippi Health Services’ Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Clinic. King recently completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern and a general surgery residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Board-certified by the American Board of Surgery, she specializes in traditional open heart and lung surgeries, as well as advanced techniques like robotic and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).
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Forest Hospital latest to receive new surgical robot
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More than 900 Mt. Gilead/Improve Water Association customers under boil-water notice
Ribbon cutting for new Hattiesburg pharmacy kicks off National Health Week. Lumberton High School Football feels like it’s on the doorstep of something special. Laurel Main Street looks forward to a busy fall season. Laurel residents and visitors can anticipate a full calendar of events starting in September.
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Golden Angels Home Care Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
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Mississippi medical center notches 7th cardiac care award
Meridian, Miss.-based Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center has received the 2025 NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology, according to a July 18 hospital news release. The award marks the hospital’s seventh consecutive year of national recognition from the ACC.