December 8, 2015

12th Street Center Marks World AIDS Day

Ben Boulden

Dec. 8, 2015 | The UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center’s made the global local on Dec. 1, observing World AIDS Day by providing 36 patients with free HIV screenings. Most of those 36 people also sought a variety of other free health screenings, including screenings for blood pressure, glucose levels and blood pressure….


December 4, 2015

UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for NCI

Ben Boulden

Dec. 4, 2015 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages…


UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for National Cancer Institute

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages…


November 25, 2015

Two Schmieding-Trained Brothers Provide Care for Mother, Each Other

Ben Boulden

Nov. 25, 2015 | Brothers Ronald and J.C. Skipper don’t need to tell you about the virtues of home caregiving and love of family. They can just show it to you. When their mother, Willie Mae Skipper, began showing symptoms of vascular dementia at her home in Clarksdale, Miss., J.C. Skipper moved her to his…


UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center to Provide Health Screenings Dec. 1 in Observance of World AIDS Day

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – In observance of World AIDS Day, the public is invited to participate in free health care screenings from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 1 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center, 4010 W. 12th St. The center will provide free HIV testing. The testing will be…


November 17, 2015

Caregiving Enriches Caregiver, Leads to Rewarding Career

Ben Boulden

Nov. 17, 2015 | Long lives can radiate wisdom and even joy. Home caregiver Sue Carter, of Elkins, knows an invisible benefit of her chosen occupation is being able to bask in that radiant warmth. Sue has been caring for and learning from older adults for more than 15 years. In the 1990s, at the…


November 16, 2015

UAMS/Schmieding Program Earns New Designation, Potentially Extending Caregiver Curriculum in New Avenues

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The UAMS/ Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program has been designated as an intermediate-level, evidence-based health promotion program, making it possible for other caregiver training providers to seek federal funds to purchase the program’s curriculum materials and through them expand the program’s reach and positive influence. The Arkansas Department of Human Services-Division of…


November 12, 2015

STOP Alzheimer’s Forum Draws Crowd

Ben Boulden

Nov. 12, 2015 | Deaths from Alzheimer’s disease increased 68 percent in the first decade of the century, a STOP Alzheimer’s education forum audience learned recently. About 90 people filled a large conference room Nov. 3 at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging to hear UAMS researchers tell how they are working to…


November 10, 2015

Daughter Sees Aging Through Mother’s Eyes

Ben Boulden

Nov. 10, 2015 | When Denise Henderson contacted the UAMS Schmieding Caregiver Program, she was searching for help in knowing the best way to care for her mother, who had trouble seeing and breathing. Henderson’s mother, who lived in Hot Springs, had glaucoma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a disease in which a person’s internal…


November 4, 2015

Daughter Finds Help as Caregiver for Aging Parents

Ben Boulden

Nov. 4, 2015 | Cora Lee and Arthur “Ott” Ray had been partners in life for many years as they raised their children in Hot Springs. So when Cora Lee — long after the children had grown up and moved away — was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Ott took that partnership another step as he…



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