childhood obesity

July 3, 2018

UAMS Telemedicine Program in Magazine School District Reduces Obesity

Ben Boulden

Students in the Magazine School District play during HealthyNow field Day.

July 3, 2018 | More than half of obese fifth through eighth graders in the Magazine School District reduced their obesity in the last year after participating in a program by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health. The program is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program…

August 12, 2016

Researcher to Lead New Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention

Ben Boulden

Aug. 12, 2016 | UAMS researchers at a new National Institutes of Health-funded center will be working hard to shrink a number — the 39 percent of the state’s children who are overweight or obese. Funded by a $9.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UAMS researcher Judith Weber, Ph. D.,…