Looking back on 2025, this year has been filled with unexpected turmoil, twists and turns in the news, both in Mississippi and around the country.
Here at Mississippi Today, our health team has reported out stories, and many of you have followed along, like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which are set to endure historic levels of funding cuts. We will continue to focus on how these changes shape health care systems and people’s health outcomes and quality of life. Through it all, we are here for you.
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Three killed in UMMC helicopter crash
Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi TodayThree crew members aboard an AirCare helicopter from the University of Mississippi Medical Center died in a crash in remote Madison County near the Natchez Trace Parkway.
Quick surgeries, scars and facelifts that fade: Complaints pile up about a Jackson plastic surgeon
Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodaySome patients say they are unhappy with scarring and other problems after having facial plastic surgery by Dr. Adair Blackledge of Jackson. Blackledge says he prides himself on his skill and good patient care, and that critics have harassed him and his staff.
‘One of the worst things I’ve ever seen’: Baby tests positive for meth following day in child care
Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi TodayThe Mississippi Department of Health, which is responsible for regulating and licensing day care centers, fined Little Blessings $50 after the incident.
A Food-Growing Tradition Finds New Roots in the Mississippi Delta
Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayIn the Mississippi Delta farming region where most crops get shipped elsewhere, a growing group of farmers is cultivating produce that makes it to local plates.
Mississippi’s C-section problem: A third of low-risk women are undergoing surgery for their first birth
Credit: Photos by Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today; Illustration by Bethany Atkinson, Deep South TodayDespite national pressure to reduce low-risk C-sections, Mississippi’s rate has stayed high across the last decade — peaking at 32.5% in 2018, according to data obtained from the Mississippi State Health Department.
Archie Manning calls New Orleans children’s hospital naming ‘our family’s finest hour’
Credit: Manning Family Children's HospitalArchie and Olivia Manning’s tight-knit family is often referred to as the first family of American football. Now, there is the Manning Family Children’s hospital in New Orleans where the two native Mississippians have lived for the last 54 years.
UMMC quietly leaves new health care association
Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi TodayMississippi’s largest hospital quietly left the Mississippi Healthcare Collaborative less than four months after it joined the group as a founding member.
OptumRx sues Mississippi Board of Pharmacy, alleges due process violation
Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi TodayA lawsuit filed by a major pharmacy benefit manager in December alleges the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy violated the company’s right to due process by releasing the findings of an audit before determining any wrongdoing.
Mississippi faces potential loss of over $100 million in federal cuts to health agencies
Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi TodayThe cancellation of grants awarded to the Mississippi State Department of Health totals $117,848,189, according to the Department of Government Efficiency’s “wall of receipts.”
In the state with the most C-sections, these hospitals are challenging the status quo
Credit: Photos by Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today; Illustration by Bethany Atkinson, Deep South TodayWayne General is a small, rural hometown hospital in eastern Mississippi. Baptist DeSoto is a large regional hospital just outside of Memphis. And Singing River is a mid-size hospital network on the Gulf Coast that boasts low rates at all three of its delivery locations.
But the providers at these hospitals all agree on one thing: birth takes time.
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