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Annual Walmart and Sam’s Club Campaign Raises More Than $1 Million for Arkansas Children’s

Little Rocn, Ark.– Arkansas Children’s announced today the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals fundraising campaign with Walmart and Sam’s Club raised more than $1 million. This public facing campaign has been engaging local communities for 35 years to give to their local member of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The campaign ran [read more…]

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Translational Research Center at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute Receives $11.5 Million to use “Big Data” to Discover New Therapies

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $11.5 million in Phase II funding to the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) based on the successes of the Center for Translational Pediatric Research (CTPR), established five years ago. The center applies a cutting-edge systems biology approach to [read more…]

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Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Lena Awar Joins St. Bernards HeartCare Center

JONESBORO, Ark. – Interventional Cardiologist and Jonesboro native Lena Awar, M.D. has joined the medical team at St. Bernards HeartCare Center. Dr. Awar arrives at St. Bernards after practicing Cardiology in southern California since 2015, including an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and Cardiovascular Fellowship at the University of Southern California and [read more…]

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Arkansas Children’s Hospital Becomes Nation’s First Therapeutic Site in Launch of Groundbreaking Clinical Trial for Pediatric Acute Leukemia

LITTLE ROCK, AR. – Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) will be the first site in the nation to enroll patients in a therapeutic clinical trial designed to fundamentally change how children with acute leukemias are treated. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society launches the worldwide Pediatric Acute Leukemia (PedAL) Master Clinical Trial [read more…]

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ADH warns of heat-related illnesses

Little Rock, Ark. – As high temperatures continue in the coming weeks, the Arkansas Department of Health encourages people to practice heat safety.  Heat stress is heat-related illness caused by your body’s inability to cool down properly. The body normally cools itself by sweating, but under certain conditions sweating is [read more…]

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Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Celebrates 35 Years of Changing Kids’ Health with Walmart and Sam’s Club at Arkansas Children’s

Fundraising campaign runs June 13 – July 10 (Springdale, Ark.) – For 35 years, Walmart and Sam’s Club have partnered with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals to change kids’ health to change the future. Associates in stores and clubs across the country have rallied behind the CMN Hospitals campaign year in [read more…]