Arkansas public health pioneer Dr. Joseph Bates dies at age 90 in Little Rock

LITTLE ROCK -- Dr. Joseph Bates, a physician and Arkansas Department of Health official who transformed tuberculosis treatment with pioneering outpatient therapies, allowing patients to avoid the sanatorium, and subsequently helped establish the state's first independent public health college at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, died on Friday from colon cancer in Little Rock. He was 90.

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