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Read April 5 issue of MBJ

by MBJ Staff Published: April 5,2013

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Hospital helicopter transports are saving lives

by Becky Gillette Published: February 1,2013

Tags: Air Care, air rescue, helicopters, UMMC

Transporting critically ill or injured patients by helicopter from hospital to hospital or from the scene of an accident is commonplace in Mississippi’s urban centers and rural communities. Today about a dozen helicopters operate in Mississippi, flying heart transplant recipients, accident victims and premature babies to lifesaving care. The service is available throughout the state [...] [...]

Read June 25 issue of MBJ

by MBJ Staff Published: June 22,2012

Tags: agriculture, beer laws, Big Business, cattle prices, Cindy Hyde-Smith, CON law, farming, Fondren, gaming, largest employers, Magnolia Girls State, Margaritaville Casino, Nancy Sanders, Treehouse Boutique, UMMC

>> IS FARMING REAL BUSINESS? Ag commissioner seeking more emphasis on agriculture in state’s economic development— By Ted Carter Also in this week’s paper: >> RISING CATTLE PRICES RAISE RUSTLER WORRIES Cattle theft on the rise with beef prices— by Ted Carter   >> MSC: UMMC SUBJECT TO CON LAW “Certificate of need” applies to state’s largest [...] [...]

Reeves named dean

by MBJ Staff Published: June 10,2012

Tags: Butch Gilbert, Gary Reeves, Mississippi Army National Guard, UMMC, University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry

After more than two years of service as interim dean, Dr. Gary Reeves of Brandon has been appointed dean of the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry. Reeves took over as the school’s leader after interim dean Dr. Butch Gilbert stepped down in February 2010. He first came to the School of Dentistry [...] [...]

Hybrid Plastics technology used in world’s first synthetic organ transplant

by Amy McCullough Published: January 31,2012

Tags: blood clot, Carl Hagstrom, Dr. Alex Seifalian, Dr. Robert Lochhead, Hybrid Plastics, medical, Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane, polymer science, POSS, Sweden, synthetic scaffold, UMMC, University College of London Medical School, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Southern Mississippi

HATTIESBURG — Technology from a Mississippi company has been used in an international medical breakthrough: Hybrid Plastics’ unique technology called POSS (Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane) was recently used to enable the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. In the surgery performed in June 2011 in Sweden, a terminally ill cancer patient received a new trachea, or windpipe, [...] [...]

DRMC announces chief of staff

by MBJ Staff Published: December 18,2011

Tags: Baton Rouge, Delta Regional Medical Center, DRMC board of trustees, Greenville, JACKSON, Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University Medical Center, LSU, medical residencies, Ole Miss, Robert L. Curry, Stansel Harvey, surgery, UMMC, University of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Medical Center, urology

Delta Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is pleased to announce Robert L. Curry, M.D., Urologist, as its new Chief of Staff. As Chief of Staff, Curry will serve as Chief Medical Officer, as well as on the Board of Trustees at DRMC. Stansel Harvey, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer at DRMC says, “Dr. Hayek did a remarkable [...] [...]

Private money, new stadium for Jackson State football loom as roadblocks for UMMC mega facility

by Clay Chandler Published: July 11,2011

Tags: Jackson State, JSU, UMMC, Veterans Memorial Stadium

There are two major hurdles to clear if the area around University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is to become a medical research and treatment “city.” Jackson State University has to relinquish control and management of Veterans Memorial Stadium, and hundreds of millions of dollars in private investment from new and existing medical facilities [...] [...]

Martin installed as president

by MBJ Staff Published: May 22,2011

Tags: American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. James Martin, UMMC, University of Mississippi Medical Center

A member of the faculty of the University of Mississippi Medical Center has been named president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. James Martin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UMMC, was installed in Washington, D.C., as president of the 53,000-member organization that is the leading group of physicians providing health care [...] [...]

Global Obesity Summit held this week in Jackson

by Amy McCullough Published: November 8,2010

Tags: Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, obesity summit, UMMC

Source: Press release JACKSON — The Global Obesity Summit 2010 will be held this week at the Jackson Convention Center. Internationally renowned scientists, clinicians, state leaders, business leaders, and health care policy makers will discuss innovative solutions to the causes of obesity, preventive strategies, and therapeutic management approaches. This summit marks the founding of the [...] [...]

Federal biomedical research director, UMMC grad, lectures Friday

by Amy McCullough Published: October 20,2010

Tags: biomedical research, Dr. Robin Robinson, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, UMMC, University of Mississippi Medical Center

Source: UMMC press release JACKSON — One of the nation’s top scientists and director of the federal agency charged with mobilizing production of last year’s H1N1 flu vaccine, the largest amount in U.S. history, will give the University of Mississippi School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences 2010 Research Day Distinguished Alumni Lecture on [...] [...]

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