Kevin D. Raney, PhD, a research leader at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Arkansas Hospice announced the acquisition of First Choice Senior Care (FCSC) of Little Rock. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Arkansas Hospice President and CEO Judy Wooten said, “The addition of FCSC to our family of companies is a wonderful opportunity for us to meet the needs of seniors where they are, improve their quality of life, and provide an added layer of support for their caregivers.” The non-medical, in-home care afforded by FCSC expands the services of Arkansas Hospice, which added a palliative care division in 2015.
A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages one to three years safely desensitized most of them to peanuts and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth. The results of the trial, co-led by Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Stacie Jones, MD, are published in the journal The Lancet. Nearly 150 children ages one to three years participated in the IMPACT trial at five sites.
CHI St. Vincent announced that Shree Nallur, MD, has joined the team of leading primary care physicians at the CHI St. Vincent Primary Care Clinic in Sherwood. Nallur is now seeing patients at the clinic, located at 7709 Highway 107.
Bayley Halbert, APRN, is now providing care for patients in the Washington Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
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