September 27, 2016

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP recently announced the hire of Tonya S. Gierke to the Health Care Law practice group. She joins the firm after serving more than a decade as a corporate compliance officer, risk manager, and privacy officer in a hospital setting. Her background also includes working in medical malpractice defense law and a nursing career that has spanned more than 26 years.

September 27, 2016

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has also been awarded $41.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to oversee a 17-site pediatric clinical trial network that will provide medically underserved and rural children access to clinical studies studying environmental influences on early development.

September 27, 2016

Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) will receive $1.9 million as an integral component in a seven-year, $157 million initiative announced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how children’s health is affected by their environment.

The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program will investigate how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development – from conception through early childhood – influences the health of children and adolescents.

September 27, 2016

On Friday, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and 35 other attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against the makers of Suboxone, a prescription drug used to treat opioid addition, over allegations that the company engaged in practices to block generic competitors from joining the market and caused purchasers to pay artificially high prices.

September 27, 2016

Baptist Health has launched its latest clinic – the Baptist Health Heart Institute Valve Clinic – specifically designed for the evaluation and treatment of symptomatic aortic stenosis.