JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – On Thursday, March 16, Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) signed Senate Bill 2212 which extends postpartum care from two to 12 months for mothers on Medicaid in Mississippi. “Today ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi health officials have declared a public health emergency after releasing data showing the state's infant mortality ...

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ...