Ruleville, Miss. – The seemingly insignificant act of reading the label on a soda can and then focusing to read the numbers on the can’s bar code only becomes important when put into the context of saving lives. So when medical staff at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., trained the lens [...]

Belzoni, Miss. – When it comes to helping others stay healthy, Rev. Lorene Delaney likens herself to the archetypical man in the desert searching for water. “I just have to keep going and going,” she says. “And when I can’t go anymore, I hope someone picks up the torch and carries it forward.” Rev. Delaney’s [...]

Pope, Miss. – Twelve-year-old Tyler Hawkins remembers the day last year when they took the deep fryers out of his school cafeteria. “It was kind of weird not having regular french fries. But now everybody’s kind of used to them being baked,” said Tyler, a seventh-grader at Pope Middle School. “I think by eating healthier, [...]

Greenville, Miss. – There’s no black doctor’s bag anymore. Only a tablet-sized personal computer. No hard-to-read handwritten prescriptions. Just a mouse-click transmission to any pharmacy, anywhere in the country. No charts or bulky paper records. Simply a series of commands that keeps every aspect of a patient’s care in a virtual world. Welcome to a [...]