by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today September 13, 2023 Mississippi Public Employee Retirement System leaders will ask the Legislature for a cash infusion during the 2024 session. The board of trustees for the public pension plan is “seeking a cash infusion or direct...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today September 14, 2023 More than 16,000 Mississippians were dropped from Medicaid in August during the latest round of the agency’s disenrollments. The pandemic-era federal regulations that prevented state Medicaid agencies from...
by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today September 13, 2023 Mississippi’s infant mortality rate reached a five-year high in 2021, according to the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The death rate of babies under one year of age rose...
by Arthur Allen, KFF Health News, Mississippi Today September 14, 2023 Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest COVID-19 booster, a federal expert panel recommended Tuesday after hearing an estimate that universal vaccination could prevent 100,000 more...
by Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today September 12, 2023 Gov. Tate Reeves, running for a second term this year, is traveling the state vowing he’ll continue to block Medicaid expansion, a policy that would provide health coverage to at least 200,000 working...
By: Annie Oeth The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is on the rise in Mississippi and nationwide, prompting infectious disease experts from the University of Mississippi Medical Center to encourage taking precautions to limit the spread of the virus as well as...
