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While suffering a major stroke at her home near Mena, Iva Sikes assumed the worst, not knowing that a UAMS-led telemedicine program would provide her a complete recovery.

When UAMS patient Glen Deaton arrived at UAMS, large veins that drain blood from his brain were clotting. Salah Keyrouz, M.D., a UAMS stroke neurologist and Glen’s doctor, described it as the worst case he had ever seen. “I didn’t think he was going to make it,” Dr. Keyrouz said. stroke caused by a clot [...]

Bruce Bell is proof that a person’s life can change in an instant. While applying weather-proofing material to the ceiling of a building in Pine Bluff, Bell fell 20 feet, landing on his back. No one witnessed his fall, and it is estimated that it took his employees about 10 minutes to find him. “I [...]