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UAMS Says Proton Center Continues Operating Amid Payment Dispute
Michael Huber, MD, FACC, Joins Baptist Health Heart Institute/Arkansas Cardiology
Constance Chapman, MD, MPH, Joins UAMS Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gary Clark, PD, Boosts Family Scholarship in UAMS College of Pharmacy
Arkansas Children’s, Lyon College School of Dental Medicine to Partner 
UAMS Radiation Oncology Center Receives $200,000
UAMS Receives Initial Accreditation for Preventive Medicine Residency Program
War Does Not Make America Healthy, Again
May 11, 2026
UAMS Radiation Oncology Center Receives...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $200,000 grant from the Ottenheimer Brothers Foundation to support the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Radiation Oncology Center.

The grant will go to the purchase and installation of the Brainlab ExacTrac Dynamic System. The medical equipment and software combine surface and image guidance technologies in one integrated system, delivering highly accurate treatments for a wide range of indications in cranial, spine, breast, prostate, and lung areas.

May 4, 2026
UAMS Receives Initial Accreditation for...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to form the Dr. Joseph H. Bates Preventive Medicine Residency Program, a blend of public health and general preventive medicine.

It will be the only preventive medicine residency program in Arkansas.

May 4, 2026
War Does Not Make America Healthy, Again

The Health Secretary, the War Budget, and the Louisiana Doctor Who Kept Fact-Checking
By Dianne Marie Normand Hartley

May 4, 2026
FDA Releases Results from Largest-Ever T...

Editor’s Note:  The results of Operation Stork Speed may prove useful not because it revealed a poisoned formula supply, but because it tested an alarming claim against evidence. The result was not a scandal. It was a reminder that oversight matters, trace contaminants exist across the food system, and public health leaders should be as willing to reassure parents as they are to frighten them.

April 27, 2026
UAMS Invests Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, in...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, during an April 7 ceremony.

Saucedo returned to UAMS in 2025 after a national search that began when Edward T.H. Yeh, MD, chair of the department since 2020, announced his retirement.