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Medicaid expansion is worth considering, says Rep. Sam Creekmore, the new chairman of the House Public Health and Human Services Committee.
JXN Water, the entity in control of Jackson’s water system, is challenging a state-imposed boil water notice for the cities of Jackson and Flowood after tests detected e. Coli in the water. Interim Third-Party Manager Ted Henifin suggested Thursday that the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Public Health Laboratory may have accidentally contaminated its own samples with E. coli.
The State of Mississippi issued boil water alerts after detecting E. coli. in the water supply in the cities of Jackson and Flowood.
Medical-cannabis patient Becky Henderson suffered a spinal-cord injury in a car wreck when she was 21 years old, leaving the lower half of her body paralyzed. The Gulfport, Miss., resident gets around in a motorized wheelchair and can only leave her house a couple of times a month. During a meeting of the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee on Dec. 20, 2023, Henderson proposed a series of changes to the state’s marijuana program.
Jaden Coleman, a senior at Gentry High School in Indianola, Miss., writes about enforcing the Tobacco 21 law and counseling to deter teen vaping.
Mississippi’s medical-marijuana advertising ban is preventing a dispensary from attracting customers, Tru Source owner Clarence Cocroft says.
Mississippians would have a right to use contraception protected under state law if Democratic lawmakers succeed in getting a proposed bill signed into law during
Mississippi saw its first child flu death of the 2023-2024 season.
Casey Young, a junior at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School, writes about the potential negative effects of vaping on mental health among teens.
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