The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI) announced winners of their Healthy Active Arkansas Hospital Challenge and School Challenge during an event at the Arkansas Statehouse Convention Center. ACHI’s challenges encouraged Arkansas hospitals and schools to participate in the Blue and You Fitness Challenge, competing against each other for regional and statewide fitness champion awards. Twenty hospitals and 53 schools participated.
July 10, 2017
A team of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research scientists recently began using a powerful computer system that they hope will aid them in better understanding the mechanisms of mental illness.
In June, the Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC), a division of UAMS’ Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI), installed a Dell PowerEdge system, equipped with two 20-core central processing units, three NVIDIA Tesla P100 graphics processing units, and nearly one terabyte of memory, as well as 500 terabytes of digital storage. A terabyte is 1 trillion bytes.
July 5, 2017
After conferring with the offices of the Governor and the Attorney General, the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) will now begin issuing birth certificates for same-sex couples who utilized artificial insemination and were married at the time of the birth of their child.
Amended birth certificates will only be issued in cases where the birth mother is listed on the certificate and no one is listed as the father.
July 5, 2017
Now that summer is here, it is a good time to learn about firework, food, and swim safety. The Arkansas Dept. of Health has issued several recommendations to help residents stay safe during the summer months:
Fireworks. Improper use of fireworks can lead to death and injury, including burns, cuts, and foreign objects in the eye. To prevent injury, keep these safety tips in mind:
July 5, 2017
Conway Regional Health System has launched an online, self-scheduling portal for patients seeking non-life threatening medical care in the hospital’s emergency department or after hours clinic. The hospital is the first medical center in central Arkansas to implement such a system, with the goal of reducing wait times for patients, and potentially providing them with a more comfortable and convenient overall experience.
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