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Chasing Away Those "Sugar Diabetes Blues"
Listening to a recording of Big Joe Williams singing "The Sugar Diabetes Blues" (Got them sugar diabetes blues; somebody help me please. . . ) while zooming through the Mississippi Delta on Highway 61 is to be at the intersection of what is the best and worst of this fabled landscape.
JANIS QUINN |
Public Health Promised Fresh Start
Mississippi people could begin to realize the power of public health advocacy when Gov. Haley Barbour on March 30 signed into law one of the most highly watched bills of the 2007 legislative session, Senate Bill 2764. The new law eliminated the Board of Health, deleted the state health officer position, and prescribed new direction for a revamped Board and Department of Health.
NKS WESSMAN |
Wesley Honors Pine Belt�s Extraordinary Women
HATTIESBURG � For the second consecutive year, Wesley Medical Center honored women throughout south Mississippi for their strengths at the Celebration of Strong Women held April 26 at the Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg.
�Through this celebration, we take a very important moment to thank these women for what they have done to improve the lives of others, to better their communities and to put others before themselves,� said Lisa Slay, Wesley director of marketing.
LYNNE JETER |
Emergency Departments Grow with Demand
Mississippi hospitals aim to relieve the pressure on their emergency rooms by investing in efforts to make them bigger, smarter and more efficient.
ER expansions going on now at Delta Regional Medical Center (DRMC) in Greenville and Ocean Springs Hospital on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
LUCY SCHULTZE |
Grand Rounds June
Smith Joins Singing River Staff
Dr. John Smith, family medicine specialist, has joined the Singing River Hospital Medical Staff. He will be practicing at East Central Medical Center.
Dr. Smith earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and his medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He performed his residency and internship in family medicine at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Dr. Smith is board eligible in family medicine.
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Intelligent Investing: Bond Talk
Correlation benefits. Barclays Capital and Bloomberg report that between 1997 and 2005, the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond had a negative 38 percent correlation with the U.S. large-cap stocks (S&P500 index). Thus, when stocks fall then bonds typically rise (and vice versa). After the Internet bubble burst, for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, the S&P500 stock index returns were -9.10 percent, -11.88 percent and -22.09 percent. During the same years, Lehman U.S. Aggregate bond index returns +11.63 percent, +8.44 percent and +10.25 percent.
ROGER MUNS |
MRI-Guided Biopsy Enhances Interpretation
There's not much in the way of healthcare, research or medical technology that gets past the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC).
In fact, it is usually a site that sets the pace for utilizing the latest in groundbreaking technology.
GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
UMC Monitors Cardiology Patients at Home
Thanks to a new implantable device, cardiologists at the University of Mississippi Medical Center can now keep a constant eye on their heart-failure patients — even those who live many miles from the Jackson campus.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
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