CHI St. Vincent sets neuroscience move
CHI St. Vincent in Little Rock is moving the Arkansas Neuroscience Institute to its North Little Rock campus, where it plans renovations and the construction of a new education and research center to allow the institute to expand its services and staff, the hospital announced.
The institute was established in 2010 and is headed by Dr. Ali Krisht, a neurosurgeon who specializes in vascular microsurgery involving aneurysms, acute stroke treatment and arteriovenous malformations.
Krisht is one of the institute's five neurosurgeons, who collectively perform more than 1,000 surgeries annually.
The move will position the institute to better serve "some of the most complicated and life-affecting neurological disorders for patients from around the world," St. Vincent said in a news release.
-- Noel Oman
Another Tennessee chicken flock culled
A second flock of chickens at a commercial poultry breeding operation in Tennessee has been culled after testing positive for a form of avian flu.
Tennessee Department of Agriculture officials said tests confirmed a flock in Giles County, Tenn., was infected with low pathogenic avian flu, or H7N9 LPAI. A spokesman said 17,000 birds were killed and buried as a precaution. The premises is now under quarantine.
Officials also said the state was testing poultry within a 6.2-mile radius of the Giles County site for the flu and have not found any other infected flocks to date. Giles County is near the Alabama border.
Confirmation came four days after more than 73,000 chickens from a Tyson Foods Inc. supplier in nearby Lincoln County, Tenn., were culled after being infected by a more dangerous form of H7N9 avian flu. The Giles County flock was owned by a different company and officials do not believe that chickens at one farm sickened those at the other breeding facility, according to a news release.
Officials said no affected animals entered the food chain and the risk of human infection is very low.
-- Robbie Neiswanger
State index up 2.20 to close at 347.52
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, rose 2.20 to 347.52 Friday.
Eleven stocks were up and seven down.
P.A.M. Transportation Services gained 4.9 percent in above-average volume.
Bear State Financial dropped 1.1 percent in light trading.
All but five stocks lost ground for the week.
America's Car-Mart was up 3.1 percent for the week, and Windstream lost 14.2 percent.
Total volume for the index on Friday was 18 million shares. The average daily volume for the week was 22.1 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
Business on 03/11/2017