Medical Schools Fight Health Care Migration 
by Marty Cook – 4 days ago
Arkansas faces a high demand for doctors while medical school residencies remain in short supply.
Arkansas faces a high demand for doctors while medical school residencies remain in short supply.
Common business practice has focused on workplace boundaries, but COVID-19 demonstrated a need to support employees holistically.
A New York family-owned business filed a $15 million lawsuit last week against Walmart Inc. for allegedly refusing to pay for shipments of hand sanitizer it ordered.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awards a five-year, $1.7 million grant to a UAMS researcher studying a deadly pathogen that causes severe pneumonia. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale expands its COVID-19 vaccination program to include employees family members and others who are living at the employees' home. read more >
Arkansas reports its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases in more than a month and two more deaths from the illness caused by the virus. read more >
Arkansas Children's Research Institute has been awarded a two-year, $250,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study asthma in children. read more >
The Arkansas House votes to keep the state's Medicaid expansion for another year, breaking a deadlock that left the program's future uncertain. read more >
The Arkansas State University System assimilates troubled Henderson State in Arkadelphia and grants its first diplomas in Mexico. read more >
A dozen of the biggest higher education construction projects now active in Arkansas total more than $381 million. read more >
A 240-unit apartment project in west Little Rock tipped the scales at $16.67 million. read more >
Dr. Nasim Khan has joined CHI St. Vincent Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic. read more >
Here are 11 signs that your significant other may be experiencing a mental health issue that may need to be addressed. read more >
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences gets a $2.7 million gift from the estate of Eleanor Karam to support the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. read more >
Arkansas Business is accepting nominations for its annual "20 In Their 20s" class of young professionals who are making a difference in their companies, organizations and communities. read more >
The effort to keep Arkansas' Medicaid expansion another year faced uncertainty on Tuesday, with the program falling short of the votes needed for its reauthorization in the state Legislature. read more >
Arkansas is joining other states in temporarily halting use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine while a federal review is underway. read more >
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences breaks ground on its $85 million UAMS Health Surgical Hospital expected to be complete by spring 2023. read more >
Despite improvements like family coverage for adult children and guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, our country's patchwork of insurance coverage is still threadbare in spots. read more >
It makes sense to examine whether the nature of word-of-mouth has been altered after most mouths have been behind masks during the past 12 months. read more >
Steven Webb knows that turning around the former North Metro Medical Center in Jacksonville is going to be a challenge, but the Unity Health president and CEO is up for it. read more >
Ken Mitchell, a certified physician's assistant, has joined Arkansas Urology in Little Rock. read more >
Fred Bourland has received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award for his cotton breeding and research from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, headquartered in Memphis. read more >
Crystal Lougin has been appointed to the Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling & Marriage & Family Therapy read more >
Adam Hart, president of Hart Construction in Searcy, always wanted to build things, and as a boy dreamed of driving a bulldozer. read more >
The number of new coronavirus cases per capita in Arkansas during the past two weeks was the lowest in the nation, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. read more >
Arkansas' top health official was confirmed by the state Senate despite pushback from some Republican lawmakers over the state's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Arkansas State University and the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine have decided to re-up for the long haul. read more >
Arkansas lawmakers make the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objections. read more >
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences win a $10.8 million grant to establish the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center as an National Institutes of Health-designated Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoes legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth. read more >
Two programs based out of the same building on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus are helping transform research done in a lab into marketable technology that can generate dollars and jobs. read more >
Walmart employees in several states are suing their employer, alleging they weren't paid for the time they spent submitting to mandatory COVID-19 screenings before their shifts. read more >
