Laura Santhanam

The future of the 25-bed Greenwood Leflore Hospital, which has treated patients in the Mississippi Delta for more than a century, hangs in the balance amid its steadily worsening financial situation.

The Health Department does not have the resources to provide home visitation services to expectant mothers and their infants in all 82 counties, State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney told reporters recently.

One transmasculine student was then publicly outed on May 17, when D’Iberville High School’s Facebook page posted what appears to be a digitally altered version of his senior portrait while congratulating him as this year’s salutatorian. The post highlights Jonas Hole’s “hard work, dedication, and commitment to excellence.” It also repeatedly uses his former name, also known as a deadname.

On May 17, D’Iberville High School published a Facebook post that used Jonas Hole’s former name and allegedly edited his photograph to appear more feminine.

As Mississippi prepares to open applications for grants to improve rural healthcare, lawmakers on Thursday voiced concerns about transparency and whether the hundreds of millions of federal dollars awarded to the state will reach and benefit rural communities.

Mississippi's Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council has selected the Denver-based health consulting firm Steadman Group to advise the committee's grant application process for the upcoming cycle.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi has updated its guidelines for HIV prevention medication after a national advocacy group alleged the insurer’s

Allen Siegler, mental health reporter for Mississippi Today, was awarded the Community Champion Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News for his investigation that explored how Mississippi has spent opioid settlement funds.

Congress allowed enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans to expire at the end of last year. Now the number of diabetic Mississippians without insurance, and thus regular care, is once again on the rise.

Childcare assistance, funded by the federal government with help from states, is supposed to aid working parents who are low-income, homeless or caring for foster children. But waitlists have ballooned since 2023,  when eight states had them, according to an Associated Press analysis.