CenterView: December 10, 2012

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Clockwise from top right: Kefel Duan, Brad Deere, Grace Martin, Erin Taylor, Jessica Lemon and Kristin Hinton
The inability of health-care professionals to understand and appropriately respond to a radically contrasting culture can have dire consequences on the quality of care they can provide.
With Hurricane Sandy churning toward the eastern seaboard in October, Dr. Carl Mangum got the call to deploy with the Tennessee-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team and fly to Maryland to assist storm evacuees.
Tears filled Olevia Williams’ eyes as Jacob Partlow, her 12-year old son, walked onto Hollingsworth Field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford.
A sleep study of 1,200 African-Americans begun this fall by University of Mississippi Medical Center researchers promises to deepen knowledge about how sleep disorders may contribute to cardiovascular and other diseases.
The last time Mohammad Ali took a jab at someone, he used a needle.
The Batson Light-A-Light for Children was held December 4, at the Batson Children's Hospital.
Members of the School of Health Related Professions Associated Student Body hosted their annual toy drive Dec. 3 to benefit Batson Children’s Hospital patients.