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Mississippi at the forefront of healthcare tech, innovation.

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The face of healthcare in Mississippi has changed a great deal over the past 25 years: from increasing numbers of women and minorities in the medical professions to the declines in rural hospitals to the increasing role played by insurance companies and the federal government in the practice of healthcare.

However, innovations in healthcare practices through technological advances is more widely available to Mississippians than ever before, as evidenced by a sampling of medical advances seen during the past three decades at Mississippi medical facilities:

* World's first human lung transplant in 1963, followed by the world's first human heart transplant in 1964 at University Medical Center (UMC).

* Mississippi Methodist Rehabilitation Center (MMRC) established the state's first community-based Quest program for brain-injured patients in 1996.

* Dental researcher at UMC discovers breast cancer markers in saliva in 1997.

* UMC is the first hospital in the United States to perform a MRI-guided cryosurgery in tumor removal, 1998.

* World's first interventional CAT scan surgery using a radiofrequency probe to treat non-primary lung cancer performed at UMC in...

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