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State leaders met with health experts to address the high rate of maternal mortality in Arkansas
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Officials credit winter weather with slowing donations, contributing to a blood shortage in Arkansas hospitals.
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Driven by research that shows Arkansas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the nation, Arkansans for Improving Maternal Health (AIM) has formed to advance policies to raise the state’s standing.
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Medicaid client advocates said earlier this year that Arkansas should have tried harder to confirm ineligibility before cutting coverage in post-pandemic “unwinding."
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Participants will receive nutritional counseling and help applying to public assistance programs, as well as deliveries of healthy foods during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
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If the proposal is on the 2024 ballot, Arkansas would join several GOP-led states with abortion ballot initiative efforts in 2023 or 2024.
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The House Aging, Children and Youth Committee discussed Arkansas's high maternal mortality and the state midwife shortage at a meeting on Monday.
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Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, although it’s far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his new left eye.
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The $70 million facility will be known as the National Center for Opioid Research and Clinical Effectiveness, and will be housed on Arkansas Children’s main campus in Little Rock.
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The party is asking state officials to restore Medicaid coverage to more than 184,500 Arkansans whose eligibility DHS could not confirm.