Mississippi officials released the 2025 public health report card, showing some improvements and some continued health challenges. The annual public health report card is a "data-driven overview" of a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Mississippi, there were 9.7 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births in 2024, which is almost double the most recent national ...
Mississippi state health officials have announced a public health emergency due to the state's rising infant mortality rate. Over the last decade, over 3,500 babies have died before their first ...
Teara Coates, 21, touches her four-day-old baby, Tayden Coates, in the incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University Mississippi Medical College on Sept. 30, 2012. Credit - Lynsey ...
The infant mortality rate in Mississippi is higher than it's been in more than a decade, state health officials say. - RyanJLane/E+/Getty Images The Mississippi health department declared a public ...
Mississippi state health officials revealed how the state performed on key health issues in 2024. Hush Naidoo Jane Photography via Unsplash Mississippi officials released the 2025 public health report ...
COMING UP. >> SEE YOU AGAIN IN JUST A BIT, DAVID. THANK YOU. MORE INFANTS ARE DYING IN MISSISSIPPI THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN THE PAST DECADE. >> THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH JUST DECLARED THE ...
The Mississippi State Department of Health has declared a public health emergency after it "could not wait to take action" in response to rising infant mortality rates throughout the state, according ...
(CNN) — The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state. There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in ...
JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) has declared a public health emergency following a troubling rise in infant mortality across the state. According to MSDH’s 2024 data ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi State Department of Health declared a public health emergency in response to rising infant mortality rates across the state. According to the agency, ...