Category Archives: Health

AIDS education helps place state ranking at 32 in reported cases

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Admin

Arkansas ranks number 32 highest in the nation for reported AIDS cases, according to information garnered by the Center for Disease Control and compiled by KAIT 8 Thursday in acknowledgment of World AIDS Awareness Day. An even more frightening statistic: … Continue reading →

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Wal-Mart says it won’t further medical offerings

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Admin

It was speculated earlier this week, by National Public Radio and Kaiser Health News, that soon individuals would be able to stop by Walmart and not only get groceries, but a check-up, too. But, as it turns out, Wal-Mart Stores … Continue reading →

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Crossett’s Georgia-Pacific targeted in recent documentary

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Admin

A release from the Brave New Foundation lists “the many sins of the Koch Brothers,” who own what the foundation claims is a cancer-causing Georgia-Pacific plant in Crossett, Ark. From 15 families who live on Penn Road, along which a … Continue reading →

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Dump the cantaloupes, pick up a watermelon instead

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Admin

The first case of listeriosis, reportedly linked to a contaminated cantaloupe, was confirmed in Arkansas yesterday by the state health department. Officials haven’t released the location of the sick man or when the disease was discovered, but are warning Arkansans … Continue reading →

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EPA rejects Murphy Mereaux permit

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Admin

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected last week a permit granted to Murphy Oil Corp., for use at its Mereaux facility by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Protection, stating that the LDEQ miscalculated the company’s pollution output when handing out the … Continue reading →

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J&J facing suit from Arkansas attorneys

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Admin

Johnson & Johnson, the same company famous for its no more tears baby shampoo — for which it last year faced a lawsuit concerning its allegedly cancerous ingredients — will soon enter the courtroom again following a suit by Arkansas … Continue reading →

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Arkansas trails Hawaii as most drug-abusing workforce

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Admin

If you thought it was Arkansas, you were wrong — Hawaii leads the nation in the largest population of workplace methamphetamine use. Arkansas, however, follows in second. At 280 percent greater than the national average, Arkansas is only bested by … Continue reading →

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State looks to overhaul portions of Medicaid

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Admin

Facing a $60 million shortfall by July 2012, state officials announced an overhaul to Arkansas’ Medicaid program that would change the way doctors are reimbursed for certain services from on a treatment by treatment basis to one repayment for a … Continue reading →

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First heat-related death confirmed

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Admin

We’re reminded yet again that temperatures in the triple digits are nothing to mess around with as the Arkansas Department of Heath confirmed the first heat-related death in the state this summer on Monday. A department spokesperson wouldn’t say where … Continue reading →

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Murphy to pay out for employees’ hearing loss

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Admin

Murphy Oil will have to kick out more than $2 million to 41 plaintiffs who say the company improperly prepared them for the noisy rigors of working at the factory — an oversight that cost them their hearing. According to … Continue reading →

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Arkansas ranks ninth fattest state

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Admin

Time to put down those cheeseburgers and pick up some dumbbells, Arkansans (or fear the wrath of the Huck). Expanding waistlines are a vexing problem in the South, according to a recent study that puts Arkansas as the ninth most … Continue reading →

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Arkansas ranks 28th freest state

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Admin

Arkansans fall along the median for the freest people in country, according to a study recently released by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. The study takes into account state and federal grants as well as how the money … Continue reading →

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Medicaid benefits big following medical settlement

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Admin

The state’s Medicaid program will receive a nice little chunk of change out of a $50.7 million settlement by Arkansas, other states and the federal government with two pharmaceutical companies. Slightly more than $63,000 will be making its way into … Continue reading →

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Health Department orders Lazy Cakes removal

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Admin

This was too good to pass up: The Arkansas Department of Health has ordered convenience stores to remove Lazy Cakes from their shelves, calling the sleep-inducing brownies a “public health threat.” According to Arkansas News, each brownie contains a double … Continue reading →

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GLAMS conference visits El Dorado

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Admin

The Girls Learning About Math and Science (GLAMS) conference took a pit stop in El Dorado on Tuesday at the South Arkansas Community College Conference Center.

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