Tag: health
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NAMI Walks Your Way: Mental Health Awareness Fundraiser Held in Bluff – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper
[ad_1] NAMI Walks Your Way: Mental Health Awareness Fundraiser in Bluff September 18, 2022 (Sunday) at 5:00 am Natchez — The National Alliance for Mental Illness and other groups behind suicide prevention and mental health walked Natchez Bluff on Saturday to raise awareness of funding and causes. NAMI-Four Rivers and mental health supporters began showing ... -
Maternal health advocates operate in the dark as Texas stalls data
[ad_1] Nakeenya Wilson knows first-hand the trauma of complicated pregnancy. All three of her children were born after she developed preeclampsia. The condition is a potentially fatal condition that causes high blood pressure and kidney damage, disproportionately endangering black women like herself. That experience is part of the reason Wilson joined the Texas Maternal Mortality ... -
education notes
[ad_1] Chief of Computer Education Chosen Kelly Griffin is Arkansas’ new director of computer science education, succeeding Anthony Owen, who resigned from his post with the Arkansas Department of Education this summer to become Code.org’s senior director of state government affairs. A licensed educator, Griffin previously served as a lead computer science specialist on a ... -
Shining a Light on K-12 Education
[ad_1] If you have a student or teacher in your family, or know someone who is a student, teacher, school bus driver, or works in a school district or field of education, you have experienced the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. When youth education is affected, so are our communities. A recent report by ... -
KOOTENAI HEALTH: should be 501c3
[ad_1] I have been with the community for 12 years as a neurosurgeon and a further 12 years as a member of the Kootenai Health Board of Directors. He has two institutions that are essential to our community: Kootenai Health and North Idaho College. Both are in danger. This is due to the fact that ... -
Don’t touch foreigners, health official warns after China’s first monkeypox case
[ad_1] Jessie Yeung with CNN’s Beijing bureau A day after the first case of monkeypox was confirmed in mainland China, the country’s top health officials warned people not to touch foreigners. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo on Saturday that the country’s Covid-19 ... -
Dogs: History, evolution and behavior of our best friends
[ad_1] It hardly seems like a dainty teacup poodle and a wrinkly Neapolitan mastiff could belong to the same species, much less the same subspecies. But both are Canis lupus familiaris, the beloved domestic dog. A member of the family Canidae — along with wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals — dogs have been human companions ... -
WCU Hosts First Rural Health Summit
[ad_1] Hattiesburg, Mississippi (WDAM) – Physicians from across Mississippi met with medical students from William Cary University for the first-ever conference on rural health care. Organizers of the inaugural Rural Health Summit at WCU hope to improve care in areas such as diabetes and mental health. The event started on Friday night and ended on ...










