The Arkansas Department of Health’s Local Health Units across the state are offering COVID-19 testing.
Testing is encouraged for all individuals who believe they have had contact with or been exposed to a positive case as well as anyone who is experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath. Tests are also offered to anyone with or without symptoms who lives in or has traveled to an area experiencing active transmission.
COVID-19 and the constant changes surrounding it is taking a mental and emotional on the state’s citizens. To combat this and bring some joy to Arkansans, Methodist Family Health is asking pet lovers to share pictures and video of their pets, which the nonprofit will share to its social media platforms and publications.
Funding is now available to help licensed child care centers cover costs associated with the COVID-19 outbreak and to cover child care costs for some essential workers in Arkansas, a group of State Legislators and the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) announced.
Degrees and certificates were conferred to 914 graduates of the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) five colleges and graduate school. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, no commencement ceremony was held.
Degrees were awarded to 165 in the College of Medicine, 255 in the College of Nursing, 112 in the College of Pharmacy, 67 in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, 257 in the College of Health Professions, and 58 in the Graduate School.
CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY) announced that it has initiated enrollment in the PROACT Xa clinical trial, a prospective, randomized, trial to determine if patients with an On-X mechanical aortic valve can be maintained safely and effectively on apixaban (Eliquis®) rather than on warfarin
