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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,…
January 6, 2016
Melanoma Survivor Kenneth Wolfe Celebrates Life and Hope
Melanoma survivor Kenneth Wolfe talks about his health care team at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
December 8, 2015
Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Lets Teen Walk and Run
Dec. 8, 2015|“Can you believe that something this small is what has changed how well you move?” UAMS neurosurgeon Erika Petersen, M.D., said showing a wire the size of a spaghetti noodle to 15-year-old Darius Hoppis. Before the brain surgery, Darius was hardly able to walk. Now Darius is a warrior — a Western Grove…
December 1, 2015
Aneurysm Patient Encourages Others to Seek Screening
Dec. 1, 2015 | What William Ford remembers most about the night he was rushed to the hospital in November 2014 is the pain. “It was absolutely excruciating,” he said. At first, his legs and hips hurt only when he moved, so he tried lying down in search of relief. When that didn’t help, his…
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