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Getting to Know the New Chancellor
Growing up in a hardscrabble Pennsylvania town, the newly announced next chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) had little inkling he'd one day be helming a growing academic medical center in Little Rock, Ark.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
Jackson Health Affiliates to Buy Sparks
After 122 years as a locally operated nonprofit, Sparks Health System in Fort Smith is partnering with Jackson Hospital Affiliates (JHA), a division of Jackson Healthcare, LLC to stay afloat. The Sparks Health System Board of Trustees March 30 approved a letter of intent for a purchase of Sparks by the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
IRA Planning for the Next Generation
Individual retirement accounts and qualified retirement plans (401k, 403b, and 457 plans) can be excellent tools for saving for retirement and building wealth. But they’re not very efficient when it’s time to pass on these assets to your children or grandchildren.
Chad Carlson, CFP |
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Legislators Give State Cancer Program Thumbs Up
Colorectal Cancer Screenings, Treatment Would Help 300,000 Arkansans
If Governor Beebe signs it into law and the bill receives appropriations, Arkansas will soon have one of only a few statewide colorectal cancer programs in the nation.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
Educating Tomorrow's Public Health Professionals
"One problem we face in public health is that people really don't understand public health." Yet, people are catching on fast, and the evidence is in the number of higher education institutions offering public-health degrees.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Baptist Slates Women's Health Week Activities
Mother's Day is more than flowers and sweet gifts from children this year at Baptist Health System. It's also the official start to a week-long, systemwide focus on women's health in conjunction with National Women's Health Week.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
And Baby Makes Fourteen
Suleman Case Shines Public Spotlight on Reproductive TechnologiesIn the late 1970s, a popular television show led us to believe that "Eight is Enough." Fast forward to 2009, and the resulting furor over the "octomom" seems to indicate that eight is actually way too many.
CINDY SANDERS |
Richard A. Lloyd, and Norman Snyder, MDs
Richard Lloyd and Norm Snyder likely crossed paths several times growing up in and around Detroit, Mich., but it was several decades before the Vista Health psychiatrists would meet in Fayetteville, Ark., where they are both close colleagues and neighbors.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
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