General surgeon Richard Rairigh, MD, recently joined Baptist Health Surgical and Specialty Clinic-Conway.
Rairigh, a native of Daytona Beach, Fla., received his medical education from the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine. He completed residency training from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Tickets are on sale now for CareLink’s annual fundraiser Cupcakes for Goodness Sake. Starting at $12 for adults and $5 for people 55+ and kids under 12, advance tickets are available by visiting the official event page at CareLink.org/Cupcakes. Benefiting the Central Arkansas Area Agency on Aging, the cupcake festival returns Feb. 26, 2022, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Heifer International Village in Little Rock. This year’s theme is Candyland.
Janelle Potts, MD, primary care physician with Mercy Clinic Family Medicine – Downtown Rogers, and co-workers with Mercy Northwest Arkansas helped to establish the Little Free Pantry at the Rogers clinic five years ago. The Little Free Pantry has been so beneficial and successful, additional pantries have popped up at many other Mercy NWA locations. The latest pantry opened this summer at Mercy Clinic Primary Care – Springdale, with another in the works at Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers.
Other Mercy pantry locations include:
-Mercy Highway 102, Bentonville
Arkansas Urology has announced plans to open an advanced imaging center at its Little Rock clinic location.
A drug discovered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to counter the effects of methamphetamine will be tested in a phase 2 clinical trial as the only potential treatment of its kind for methamphetamine use disorder.
The study is led by UAMS startup biopharmaceutical company InterveXion Therapeutics, LLC, and is funded by a three-year, $13.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
