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March 8, 2016
New Tradition Bonds Friends Fighting Breast Cancer
March 8, 2016 | During one of her many trips to the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Tammy Alexander spotted an old friend browsing in the gift shop. “Stacy Sells and I were classmates at Hendrix College, but we hadn’t seen each other in quite a while,” she said. Having seen a UAMS advertisement…
March 3, 2016
UAMS Helps Harmony Clinic Obtain Retinal Camera
March 3, 2016 | UAMS Glaucoma specialist Grant Morshedi, M.D., knows how important Little Rock’s Harmony Health Clinic is to those who need health care but can’t afford it. As a UAMS medical student in 2008, he worked with many others at UAMS and in the community to establish the free clinic that is staffed…
March 2, 2016
Stroke Patient Feels ‘Wonderful’ After Clot Treatments
March 2, 2016 | It began like any other Sunday for the Lemasters of Sherwood. Mary Lemaster and her husband, James, had participated in the Sunday School class at Baring Cross Baptist Church on Feb. 7, 2016, and were getting ready to attend morning worship in the sanctuary when Mary went to the restroom. “It…
February 22, 2016
Auxiliary’s Compassion Cards to Help Caregivers
Feb. 22, 2016 | Caregivers of patients in the hospital sometimes could use a little help themselves. So the UAMS Medical Center Auxiliary has begun raising money to provide caregivers in need with a $25 Compassion Card that they can use to buy food on the UAMS campus while their loved one is hospitalized. The…
February 12, 2016
Dallas Couple Finds Support, Healing at Myeloma Institute
Feb. 12, 2016 | When Rodney and Cortina Orr traveled from their home in Dallas to UAMS in July 2014, they were seeking a second opinion about treatment options for Cortina Orr, who had just been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. After one day of testing, Orr developed a fever and was admitted into UAMS Medical…
February 3, 2016
Bradshaw Sings UAMS Praises After Knee Replacement
Feb. 3, 2016 | Terry Bradshaw is one satisfied customer. The Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback praised the excellent care he received at UAMS in December when Lowry Barnes, M.D., performed a total knee replacement on his right knee. Bradshaw told the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees during its…
February 2, 2016
UAMS’ Vander Schilden Honored for 30 Years as Team Doctor for Trojans
Feb. 2, 2016 | UAMS orthopaedics professor Jack Vander Schilden, M.D., was recognized Jan. 30 for his 30 years of service with the Trojan athletic teams at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). Vander Schilden, who is the head team physician for all Trojan athletic teams, including the basketball team, was honored at…
February 1, 2016
Research Support Offices Become Holiday Heroes for Leukemia Patient
Feb. 1, 2016 | It was Christmas night and Yogesh Jethava, M.D., was worried. Working the holiday at UAMS Medical Center, he had just diagnosed a leukemia patient’s rare, life-threatening liver disease. The only known treatment was a drug awaiting U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval and not available at most medical centers. What he…
January 29, 2016
Little Rock Mom Thankful for Beating Colon Cancer
Jan. 29, 2016 | Alice Rogers knew something was wrong. What started with abdominal cramps in March 2015 had progressed to severe pain by July. “It hurt every time I ate, sometimes making me double over,” she said, adding that she also was passing pencil-thin stools. “I knew something was wrong, but I just didn’t…
January 14, 2016
Cornea Transplant Clears Blurry, Clouded World for Patient
Jan. 14, 2016 | Every morning, Robbie Smith, 37, gets a vivid reminder of how debilitating his eyesight used to be. Before he inserts a pair of special corrective contact lenses, “I’m only able to see a few inches from my face,” he said. At age 10, Smith, of Little Rock, was diagnosed with keratoconus,…
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