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Blue Cross & Blue Shield has recognized four Mississippi hospitals with Blue Distinction Centers of Excellence for knee & hip Replacement and spine surgery. The state’s leading health and wellness company announces that Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, and St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson [...]

NASA says it is “go for launch” on a visit to the Mississippi Children’s Museum this Saturday. Members of the John C. Stennis Space Center on the Gulf Coast will be on hand to show visitors how to live and work in space through a variety of special activities; the event will both promote the [...]

The Dow Jones industrial average, which measures the performance of 30 blue-chip companies, rose more than 60 points at the start of trading on Tuesday, to 14,188.11. That surpasses its record close of 14,164.53, which it achieved nearly five and a half years ago. Its record intraday high, set around the same time, is 14,198.10. [...]

Did you have your milk this morning? The ladies of the Mississippi State University Dairy Science Club hope you did. The cow lovin’ crew recently published a video on YouTube highlighting their class for the annual student meeting of the Southern Region American Dairy Science Association. The girls put a hilarious bovine twist on Shania [...]

The words could not be more clear — “Let’s Not Rush to Call the HIV Baby Findings a ‘Cure’”. Many are in debate about the breakthrough that was announced this weekend. Researchers are calling the apparent disappearance of HIV in a baby born with the infection a ‘functional cure,’ and the media is hailing the [...]