by Associated Press Published: April 19,2013
Tags: baby, doctor, educator, health, health care, higher education, HIV, influential people, magazine, media, medical, medicine, pediatrician, pediatrics, physician, postsecondary education, public university, ranking, sexually trasmitted disease, university
JACKSON — Time magazine has named HIV specialist Dr. Hannah Gay, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In caring for a newborn infected with HIV in 2010, Gay followed an atypical treatment regimen and functionally cured [...] [...]

The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is reporting its involvement in what researchers say could be a huge break in the fight to cure HIV infections in children. According to a UMMC press release, a research partnership shared between the medical center, John Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 19,2011
Tags: Cancer, cancer treatment, clinics, courts, doctors, health, healthcare, HIV, immunity, lawsuit
SUMMIT — A cancer clinic doctor in south Mississippi who was already facing federal criminal charges for allegedly using old syringes and watered-down chemotherapy drugs is now facing a civil lawsuit that claims a patient contracted HIV from a dirty needle. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, founder of Rose Cancer Center in Summit, has been held without [...] [...]