A new study at UAMS is testing whether exercise for pregnant women with depression could become an evidence-based treatment and alternative to antidepressant medications.
The pilot study, supported by the UAMS Translational Research Institute, is the first to test exercise as a possible treatment option for depression during pregnancy.
Ten pregnant women with depression are needed for the study, which is led by Shona Ray-Griffith, MD, at the Women’s Mental Health Program in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute.
The Conway Regional Health System board of directors has approved a $40 million bond issue to fund several projects over the next few years including construction of a 42,000-square-foot, three-story medical office building dedicated to women’s services.
Dr. Kossidas Konstantinos joins the team of cardiologists at the CHI St. Vincent Heart Institute. Kossidas specializes in cardiac electrophysiology and is now seeing patients at CHI St. Vincent Heart Clinic Arkansas, 10100 Kanis Road in Little Rock.