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Teeth Grow Worse In Arkansas Despite Improved Access To …
WEBThe Arkansas Department of Health says 65 to 85 percent of the state now has water with fluoride added, a mineral shown to help prevent dental decay. According to Delta Dental, Central Arkansas accounts for 41 percent of claims, Northwest Arkansas 39 percent, Northeast Arkansas 9 percent, and Southern Arkansas 11 percent.
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Dental Hygienists Are Filling An Oral Health Care Gap in Arkansas
WEBListen • 3:39. David Monteith. /. Arkansas Public Media. Dental hygienists are starting to fill a crital gap in oral health in Arkansas, experts say, given the state has a shortage of dentists, especially in low-income rural districts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2015 reported that most states face a shortage of dentists.
Little Rock Surgery Center's Deaths, Injury Go Unreported With …
WEBMalpractice Attorney Lamar Porter of Little Rock's Brad Hendricks Law Firm brought lawsuits surrounding the deaths and injury of three people who received colonoscopies at Kanis Endoscopy Center. Watkins, Creggett and Smith all had similar medical histories; advanced age, obesity, and in the case of Watkins and Smith, …
Care Providers Take Charge Of Costs And Benefits For Medically …
WEBDHS estimates PASSE will oversee care for about 30,000 medically frail Medicaid recipients in the state. The new effort is the result of the governor’s call from over a year ago to lawmakers to cut $835 million from traditional Medicaid costs. The funds are needed to offset the state’s match rate for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable
Community Paramedicine Practices Grow in Arkansas
WEBNorth Arkansas Regional Medical Center operates one of four community paramedicine programs in Arkansas. “While we are based in Harrison we also have a network of clinics out in the rural communities: up in Lead Hill, in Jasper, in Berryville and Marshall," Kibling says. "So we can better serve those people where they live.”.
Doctors Urged To Tone Down Medical Jargon
WEBAs part of Health Literacy Awareness Month this October, doctors and other health care professionals are being urged to ditch the medical jargon and adopt plain, real-world language that will be easier for patients and caregivers to understand and remember.
Teledentistry Yet To Be Widely Practiced In Arkansas
WEBTeledentistry is now widely used by orthodontists across the state, but not yet by most Arkansas dentists. Teledentistry is the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of dental patients remotely. Most often it involves the use of specialized cameras to capture high quality digital videos or photos of patients’ teeth.
With Uninsured Rates On The Rise In Arkansas, Free Dental Clinics …
WEBFor Arkansans who can't afford dental care and need treatment outside of the two-day window of ARMOM, there are some options provided by a number of free and sliding-scale clinics around the state, like the 12th Street Health and Wellness Center in Little Rock.. The 12th Street clinic, which opened in 2013, is staffed almost entirely by …
On The Internet, Breast Milk A Free-Market Answer To Oversupply …
WEBOn The Internet, Breast Milk A Free-Market Answer To Oversupply And Demand, For Moms And Men. In a Chick-fil-A parking lot in Maumelle, Mary Catherine Fortier (left) hands Glenda Nielsen more than $500 for 1,500 ounces of breast milk that's sitting in the trunk. A growing number of Arkansas moms who can't breastfeed are …
At Northwest Clinic, Patients See A (Rare) Marshallese M.D., Hear A
WEBWhen not seeing patients at Community Clinic, Dr. Riklon can be found in the halls of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwestcampus in Fayetteville. UAMS-NW operates a needs referral clinic and the Center for Pacific Islander Health, both in part staffed by Marshallese.The center researches health disparities, disease …
Vaping May Be Just as Damaging to Oral Health as Cigarettes
WEBAlarming reports oflung-related injuries linked to vaping are raising awareness about the potential risks associated with the use of electronic cigarettes, widely marketed as a healthy alternative to smoking tobacco. But new research also indicates that vaping may impair oral health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Some Arkansas Dentists Take To The Road
WEBArkansas Public Media. A critical shortage of brick and mortar dental clinics in certain regions of Arkansas has resulted in more dentists taking their practices on the road. And mobile dentistry is practiced in different ways for different reasons. Geographic access to routine dental care is a challenge for many Arkansans.
New Stricter Regulations Proposed for Arkansas Licensed Midwives
WEBArkansas Licensed Lay Midwives are regulated by the Arkansas Department of Health. Current rules require mothers to prove they are medically fit to endure a midwife-assisted birth by undergoing two medical assessments with a qualified medical provider or public health clinician. Midwives must relinquish care of any client found to be at risk
During Vietnam, Agent Orange Got Arkansas Trial, Veterans And …
WEBDuring the Vietnam War, U.S. military forces decimated jungles occupied by North Vietnamese with tactical defoliants. The chemical agent mixtures, categorized by colorful code names, were tested on U.S. national forests as well as more than a dozen rural military bases including Fort Chaffee, a 75,000-acre Army post straddling …
Arkansas Midwives Face New Regulatory Restrictions
WEBHome birth advocates claim the medical rights of childbearing women in Arkansas will be compromised by proposed new rules and regulations being considered by the Arkansas Department of Health, which licenses lay midwives in the state. “Arkansas’s midwifery regulations are already some of the most restrictive in the nation,” says Tanya
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