Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, Up in the Air About Drones?, on June 26. Panelists will discuss the use of drones – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) – in crop monitoring, disaster operations, photography, search and rescue, express shipping, and more.
Science Café will be from 7-9 p.m. at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road.
Katie Brown, OD, an optometric physician at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, is the Arkansas Optometric Association’s 2018 Young Optometrist of the Year award recipient.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) call for revision to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to reduce unintended consequences that could threaten the healthcare delivery system in the Mississippi Delta region in a new study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
The program provides financial incentives for hospitals to deliver higher quality care and higher value care by reducing Medicare reimbursements to hospitals with higher than average readmission rates for selected conditions.
Cam Patterson, MD, MBA, a renowned cardiologist and healthcare administrator, is the new chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the state’s only health sciences university.
As Arkansans plan to enjoy the outdoors during the coming summer months, the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is stressing the importance of taking precautions against ticks and mosquitoes and the diseases they can carry.
