Month: May 2019
New Study at UMMC to Explore Disease Risk Factors in Rural South
In an effort to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the same counties as well as across the country, researchers from the University of Mississippi Medica …
LSU’s Pennington Research Center Assists in Study Looking at Why Some RURAL Southerners Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Researchers from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center and other institutions will study why some people in rural parishes and counties live longer, healthier lives. Doctor Stephanie Broyles will lead the Louisiana portion of the study and they’l …
Researchers to study heart, lung disease in Franklin Parish
Seven hundred people from Franklin and Assumption parishes will be recruited for a new health study researching the effects of heart and lung disease in southern rural communities.
Study seeks to understand RURAL residents’ health challenges
In an effort to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the same counties as well as across the country, researchers from the University of Mississippi Medica …