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Arkansas Marijuana Card recently opened its first clinic in Fayetteville, and Dr. Melissa Taliaferro, who also has a medical practice in Leslie, has been seeing patients seeking a medical marijuana…
by - October 17, 2019 3:43 pm
Bentonville is increasingly becoming a destination for intriguing events and intriguing people. For example, the nonprofit Chopra Foundation is bringing its Sages and Scientists Symposium to the city Nov. 14-17….
by - October 17, 2019 1:53 pm
The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation on Thursday (Oct. 17) unveiled SMILES: POSSIBLE, a $1.3 million grant initiative aimed at improving Arkansans’ oral health. The new program is part of…
by - October 17, 2019 1:47 pm
Express Rx, a Southeastern regional pharmacy chain, is joining with MHR Fund Management in an enterprise to acquire 10 Fred’s pharmacy locations in rural areas across five Southeastern states. While…
by - October 17, 2019 1:43 pm
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Thursday (Oct. 17) a multi-state settlement requiring Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. to pay nearly $117 million for their deceptive marketing…
by - October 16, 2019 6:01 pm
First National Bank of Fort Smith on Wednesday (Oct. 16) announced a donation of $100,000 to help expand neurological services in the area. Bank CEO Sam Sicard presented the donation…
by - October 16, 2019 9:42 am
A new digital health program to provide the expertise of sexual assault nurse examiners to rural hospital emergency departments recently received funding through a $4 million, federal grant to the…
by - October 15, 2019 5:23 pm
The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine on the campus of Arkansas State University and Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home have reached an affiliation agreement…
by - October 13, 2019 9:57 am
The University of Central Arkansas (UCA) hosted a groundbreaking on campus Friday (Oct. 11) for its new Integrated Health Sciences Building. It is expected to be open for the fall…
by - October 7, 2019 5:49 pm
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) donated land for Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Fort Smith, allowing the new hospital to help patients in the Fort Smith area and students at the…
by - October 7, 2019 3:05 pm
In conjunction with the state’s first Youth Vaping Summit, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Monday (Oct. 7) called on retail giant eBay to remove electronic nicotine devices and products…
by - October 7, 2019 9:06 am
Last week, Serenity Park Recovery Center announced the opening of its twelve bed residential addiction treatment facility which includes an additional eight beds for the on-site detoxification unit. Serenity Park…
by - October 4, 2019 1:15 pm
Marcy Doderer was a summer intern in 1988 at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock. It was that point she realized running a children’s hospital was her dream job and…
by - October 2, 2019 11:05 pm
Walmart, the nation’s largest employer with more than 1.5 million employees, has more than 1 million enrolled in the company’s healthcare plan, and the retailer plans on adding more benefits…
by - October 2, 2019 8:03 pm
Dr. Guolei (Jason) Zhou, associate professor of cell and cancer biology, and his research group at Arkansas State University recently received a $419,190 grant from the National Institutes of Health…
by - October 2, 2019 4:09 pm
A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research scientist recently received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the different ways smokers respond…
by - September 29, 2019 12:21 pm
A recent study showed 73% of oncology providers believe medical marijuana provides benefits for cancer patients. But only 46% would be comfortable recommending the drug, according to a report by…
by - September 25, 2019 5:28 pm
Conway Regional Health System broke ground Wednesday (Sept. 25) on the construction of a $13 million, three-story medical office building to be located at the northeast corner of the hospital’s…
by - September 25, 2019 5:25 pm
An anonymous donor gave $1 million to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital to be used at its Jonesboro-based Kim and Chris Fowler Center, a clinic that treats children, ACH President and…
by - September 25, 2019 8:23 am
Antibiotics play a crucial role in health care. They have improved survival rates after trauma, reduced tuberculosis worldwide and made transplants and cancer therapy possible. But, with such greatness comes…
