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UAMS Receives Initial Accreditation for Preventive Medicine Residency Program
War Does Not Make America Healthy, Again
FDA Releases Results from Largest-Ever Testing of Infant Formula in the U.S.
UAMS Invests Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, in Nolan Family Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine
Baptist Health Nurses Recognized Among Arkansas’ ‘40 Nurse Leaders Under 40’
UAMS Holds Topping Out Ceremony for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Hospital in Springdale
UAMS, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Forge Agreement to Expand Healthcare Education Pathways
State Medical Society Elects Officers
July 28, 2025
CHI St. Vincent Honored by AMA Diabetic,...

CHI St. Vincent  announced that CHI St. Vincent Morrilton has been recognized with four American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines® Awards for stroke and cardiovascular care. The hospital was honored with the Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Referring Silver Plus, Rural Stroke Bronze, Rural Coronary Artery Disease NSTE-ACS Gold, and Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Gold Awards. 

July 28, 2025
Sravani Gundarlapalli, MD, Joins UAMS Di...

Sravani Gundarlapalli, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a hematologist oncologist and assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Division of Hematology Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine.

July 28, 2025
Baptist Health Family Practices in DeWit...

Baptist Health Family Clinic-DeWitt and Baptist Health Stuttgart Medical Clinic welcomed Reid Counce, MD, to their teams. 

Counce, a native of Crocketts Bluff, earned a degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and completed a residency through UAMS’ internal medicine and pediatrics program. 

July 28, 2025
Federal Judge Will Decide Whether to Blo...

By: Tess Vrbin - July 24, 2025 Arkansas Advocate

A federal judge said Wednesday that he will decide “fairly soon” whether to block Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation law regulating pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Act 624 of 2025 bans pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from holding a permit to operate a drug store in Arkansas after Jan. 1, 2026. PBMs negotiate prescription benefits among drug manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and health insurance providers, and the biggest ones also own pharmacies and insurers.

July 28, 2025
No One Knows Whether Trump’s $50B for Ru...

By: Anna Claire Vollers - July 21, 2025 Louisiana Illuminator

Congress set aside $50 billion for rural hospitals and medical providers to allay fears over the billions more in historic cuts to federal health care spending that President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day.

But is that bandage big enough to save struggling rural hospitals?

“I have more questions than I have answers,” said Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, a nonprofit policy group. “No one has those answers yet.”