Bridging The Great Health Divide

Physician Assistant students at MSU-Meridian are helping members in the community check their health by hosting a Community Health Day.

Not only is February filled with love and chocolate hearts but it’s also a month to be aware of your heart health.

Critical Access Hospitals are small, remote facilities that provide 24-hour essential medical services to patients in rural communities.

We talk with the Chief Executive Officer of Mockingbird about the company's mission and plans in Mississippi to produce medical marijuana.

It will be Monday, Feb. 14 at 12 noon at Velma Young Community Center, 2400 16th Avenue.

Right now, there’s not an ambulance company in the state that is fully staffed.

Hearing can be a lifelong struggle with the need for assistance from hearing aids, and paying for those hearing aids can be challenging for parents with children who have hearing difficulties.

February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.

Every 36 seconds one person dies of heart disease. It’s an alarming statistic from the CDC, which reports around 659,000 deaths a year.

On the heels of the untimely death of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, the Mississippi Department of Mental Health is reminding everyone about the importance of suicide prevention and the resources available to save lives.

If you or anyone you know needs help, there are resources.

The bill will now head to Governor Tate Reeves’ desk.

Votes in the House and Senate are expected Wednesday.

Things are now in motion to get medical marijuana passed by the Mississippi legislature. And some of those developments happened Tuesday. The bill has officially been filed by Senator Kevin Blackwell.

Glover, Stewart, and Wilson serve ages 14 and older for primary care needs, urgent care and acute care problems.

Suicide ranked second in deaths among law enforcement behind COVID-19.

With Pseudoephedrine being the primary ingredient for meth, county sheriffs are worried they will see an increase in meth labs.

Attorney and advocate Conner Reeves said he thinks the primary focus needs to be on the people who need medical marijuana and the voters who supported it.

One of the first orders of businesses for the 2022 legislative session is expected to be hammering out how the sale of medical marijuana will be implemented in Mississippi.

"The access of needs and wants should be available to us all."

Community of Caring Christians goes door to door to help those who need free COVID testing.

You do not have to apply for the benefits. MDHS says each eligible recipient will receive a letter informing them of the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund (PEAF) payment.

The money will be used to help schools deal with supply chain challenges brought on by the pandemic.

COVID has been the focus of healthcare warnings for the last couple of years, but doctors are warning that you need to be taking precautions to reduce your risk of getting the flu.

There have been a total of 23 pediatric flu deaths reported in Mississippi since pediatric flu deaths became reportable in the 2008-2009 flu season.

Mississippi is one of just ten states where more Black residents have taken the COVID-19 vaccine than their White neighbors.

BlackBelt Gospel Blast and Angie’s Caring Hearts come together to donate to facilities in Sumter County.

UAB’s emergency rooms are seeing more trauma patients and it is happening during a time when blood supply is critically low nationwide.

Alabama dentists say the state is on the verge of a workforce crisis. One-third of Alabama’s dentists are sixty years or older. At least half of those practice in rural Alabama, which means the majority of rural dentists are eyeing retirement.

WTOK is calling attention to the lifelong burden of this potentially deadly disease as part of National Diabetes Awareness Month.