A local 10-year-old aimed to ‘Paint the Town Purple’ to spread awareness about pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is often difficult to diagnose because there are no specific, cost-effective screening tests that can easily find the cancer in people who have…
Reports are Gulfport's Memorial Hospital is ready to take the next step with its psychiatric care. Memorial is moving ahead with plans to sell its psychiatric hospital Memorial Behavioral Health which is located in Orange Grove. Harrison County and the…
News 25's Katarina Luketich interviews John Folding about Eat, Sip, Go Red Heart Health event to help support woman with heart heart health. Tonight from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport. Tickets are $45…
World Diabetes Day takes place annually on November 14th and aims to promote a global effort to tackle the growing threat of the disease. About one in eight of Mississippi’s adult population is diagnosed with diabetes. World Diabetes Day is…
Thousands of parents of stillborn infants suffer through the heartache of losing their baby every year. Memorial Hospital in Gulfport is the very first hospital in Mississippi to receive a special piece of medical equipment to help these parents with…
Keesler Air Force Base, typically red, white, and blue, was covered in pink today for their fifth annual Mammothon. The cancer screening and preventative health fair holds walk-in screenings for multiple types of cancer and chronic diseases in honor of…
New state of the art technology at Memorial Hospital allows minimally invasive producers for patients who choose it over traditional surgery. News 25’s Kristen Durand shows us how it’s done. This may look like a scene out of a Dr.…
Breast cancer survivor and Biloxi native Paulette Leaphart was honored at the Biloxi City Council meeting today for making a more than 1,000 mile walk to Washington, D.C. topless. Leaphart was surrounded by friends and family as she received the…
It’s that time of year where sicknesses, like the flu, can creep into your immune system. Walgreens employees were giving out free flu shots to seniors at the Donal Snyder Community Center in Biloxi today. The Centers for Disease Control…
The Pascagoula Police Department offers a way for you to safely dispose of your unused medications during Saturdays’ Drug Take Back Day. The national event serves as a way to collect expired, unwanted and unused prescription and over the counter…
This weekend, dispose of your unused medications safely during Saturday’s Drug Take Back Day. The national event serves as a way to collect expired, unwanted and unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The DEA started Drug Take Back Day back in…
This weekend you have a chance to walk and raise money for a good cause. The Muscular Dystrophy Association will be holding their annual MDA Walk this Saturday in Gulfport. At 2 p.m. at Jones Park, over 150 people will…
News 25's Katarina Luketich interviews Judy Jones, and Dorothy Fox about the Fundraiser for Bethel Free Health Clinic, Fais Do-Do & Gumbo this Sunday at the Harrah's Great Lawn.
This is the first year for the "Real Men Wear Pink" campaign here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The American Cancer Society has teamed up with 20 prominent local men to wear pink. This is an effort to increase awareness…
Keeping up with health and wellness is what Virginia College officials say really saves lives. The halls at Virginia College in Biloxi were packed for the health and wellness fair this afternoon. More than 30 vendors and representatives were on…
A local college is doing its part to make sure you stay healthy. Virginia College in Biloxi, located right off of Popps Ferry, will be hosting a healthcare fair tomorrow. From 10 until 2, anyone who walks in their doors…
We all know our health is so important, but do you know all the healthcare options available to you? That’s why the Mississippi Regional Housing Authority, in partnership with United Healthcare Community Plan and My Brother’s Keeper, hosted a housing…
The Mississippi State Department of Health reports one new human case of West Nile Virus, bringing the 2016 state total to 22. The reported case is in Rankin County. So far this year, human cases of West Nile Virus have…
Opiate and heroin abuse is a deadly, growing epidemic in this country. It comes just as the federal government is launching a new initiative to curb the opioid crisis that claims tens of thousands of American lives every year. News…
Planned Parenthood is hoping the overturning of a law in Louisiana will help overturn a similar ruling in Mississippi. The women’s health group is asking a federal judge to overturn a Mississippi law that bans Medicaid from spending with a…
The City of Biloxi used a major landmark to show its support for World Alzheimer’s Awareness Day. The lighthouse across from the Biloxi Visitors Center flashed purple as a way to bring attention to the widespread disease. The purple light…
According to Alzheimer’s Mississippi, 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. One of them lives on Seal Avenue in Biloxi and the community has decided to take spreading awareness into their own hands by painting the street purple today for…
Gulfport High School students received the gift of life this morning thanks to Butch Oustalet Autoplex. The company donated funding to help train potential lifesavers with brand new CPR in Schools training kit. The kits include an instructional video, a…
The Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency wants you to know you can save eight lives in thirty seconds. Today, the agency was registering people to become organ and tissue donors through their new website at Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula. Organ…