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UAMS, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Forge Agreement to Expand Healthcare Education Pathways
State Medical Society Elects Officers
UAMS Receives $1M to Create Endowed Funds in Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Sisira Yadala, MD, Honored with AMS Best Faculty Award
Dorothy Snider Foundation Awards $110K Grant to UAMS College of Medicine for Scholarships
CARTI Cuts Ribbon on Heber Springs Cancer Center
Arkansas Children’s Names Alison Ziari, MD, as Senior VP of Practice Plan, President of ACPSO
Second Annual Baptist Health Stroke Walk is May 29 in Little Rock
August 17, 2016
Baptist Health Downtown Care Opens

A cross between an urgent care walk-in clinic and an appointment-based family physician’s office, the new Baptist Health Downtown Care clinic offers quick, convenient service especially for those who live and work in the downtown area. The clinic opened this Monday.

August 17, 2016
Two Women Arrested by Medicaid Fraud Con...

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced the arrest of an Izard County woman and a Bradley County woman by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

August 17, 2016
New Senior Arkansas Hall of Fame Inducte...

The Division of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) of the Arkansas Department of Human Services, in partnership with the Arkansas Area Agencies on Aging, has announced the 2016 nominees for the Senior Arkansans Hall of Fame and inducted three.

Keith Laverne Hamm of Berryville, Phil McBee of Pine Bluff and Harriet Raley of Searcy were recognized at a luncheon during the 20th Biennial Silver Haired Legislative Session at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in North Little Rock. The nominees included Charlie Baxter, Georgia Childers and Dan Trevathan.

August 8, 2016
CARTI Receives CVS Health Community Gran...

CARTI recently announced it has received a $10,000 CVS Health Community Grant to create an eight week Smoking Cessation program for smokers. The Community Grants Program was created by CVS Health as part of its commitment to helping people achieve their best health by providing financial assistance to programs that are focused on smoking cessation and prevention. The support from CVS Health will help CARTI provide smoking cessation classes to negate the effect tobacco has on cancer patients, smokers and their families.

August 8, 2016
Rutledge Reaches Settlement with Cephalo...

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has reached a settlement, along with 47 other states, with Cephalon and affiliated companies. The settlement ends a multistate investigation into anticompetitive conduct by Cephalon to protect its monopoly on the drug market, bringing in major profits for its landmark wakefulness drug, Provigil. Due to its conduct, Cephalon delayed generic, cheaper versions of Provigil from entering the market for several years.