LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Aging Initiative (AAI), a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), today opened a Center on Aging, its ninth, at the Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home.

“Baxter County is the perfect place to open the ninth Center on Aging because 27 percent of the population in this north central Arkansas county is age 65 or older,” said Claudia J. Beverly, Ph.D., R.N., at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Beverly, who directs the Arkansas Aging Initiative, is a professor in the UAMS College of Nursing, College of Medicine and the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health.

On Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 12:42 p.m., Forest Heights Middle School will be among more than 400 schools across the country that will unite and celebrate the first year anniversary of the national "Let's Move!" initiative, aimed at curbing childhood obesity, by dancing to Beyonce's "Move Your Body" routine.

Schools are creating videos to submit which will be edited with others to show the impact exercise can have on health. The videos will be presented to the White House to mark the event and in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! program.   Forest Heights Middle School was honored to perform last year when the campus participated in the kick-off Mrs.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas Department of Health would like to thank the many volunteers that support public health in our state during National Volunteer Week, April 15-21.  Over the past year our volunteers have assisted in the Joplin tornado response, participated in health fairs and mass flu clinics, partnered with us during various 5K runs, hosted teddy bear clinics, had booths at preparedness fairs and participated in emergency preparedness exercises.  Without volunteers, many of these activities would not have taken place.