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May 3, 2022
UAMS’ Heart Healthy Communities Program Initiates Health App in Phillips County
LITTLE ROCK — Community health workers have been going door-to-door in Phillips County to show residents how a new app can help them improve their health. On behalf of the UAMS Heart Healthy Communities project based at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the five workers work to identify needs in medically underserved…
May 2, 2022
UAMS Researchers Find Link between Experiences of Racism and Vaccine Hesitancy among Black Arkansans
FAYETTEVILLE – Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research have found that Black Arkansans who reported racial discrimination in the criminal justice system also experienced higher levels of hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines. According to the Arkansas Department of Health, only around 41% of Black Arkansans five…
April 27, 2022
UAMS Testing New Noninvasive Device for Diagnosing Fetal Heart Conditions
LITTLE ROCK — Three grants in six months from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are helping University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Hari Eswaran, Ph.D., explore promising noninvasive methods for diagnosing serious fetal health conditions. The grants total $4.4 million and support his pioneering work with sensor arrays that can reveal important…
April 25, 2022
UAMS, Presbyterian Village Celebrate 8 Centenarians
For eight Little Rock women, it was the party of the century — all of their centuries. The ladies, all Presbyterian Village retirement community residents, were recently honored for having reached their 100th birthdays.
April 22, 2022
Marshallese Patients Receive “Gift of Sight” Thanks to Jones Eye Institute
The morning of Saturday, April 9 was sunny, and Barmej Tibies had to wear special dark sunglasses to shield her healing eyes. But she felt like a movie star. Tibies and five other Marshallese patients from Northwest Arkansas received cataract surgeries April 8 as part of the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute’s second…
April 21, 2022
UAMS Alumnus Honors Father with $1 Million College of Medicine Scholarship
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $1,050,000 gift commitment from Primepares “Prime” G. Pal, M.D., to create a College of Medicine scholarship in honor of his late father. The Dr. Agaton P. Pal Scholarship is designed to support medical students with an academic background in the social sciences, or medical…
April 20, 2022
Art for Parkinson’s Workshops Provide Fun, Education, Social Interaction
|As the music began, about 15 people sitting around large round tables picked up watercolor pencils and let the symphonic sounds guide their hands as they applied colorful streaks and patterns across plain white poster board. Some made bold, jagged marks while others sculpted gentle curves. Some used dark colors; others, pastels or brights. They…
April 18, 2022
UAMS Invests Geoffrey M. Curran, Ph.D., in Inaugural Endowed Chair in Pharmacy Practice Innovation
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) invested Geoffrey M. Curran, Ph.D., in the inaugural Endowed Chair in Pharmacy Practice Innovation on April 14. “Implementation science helps pharmacists work at the top of their license and deliver more evidence-based practices and life-saving treatments to more people,” said Curran. “This chair will be extremely helpful…
UAMS is First in Arkansas to Use New Technology to Remove Valve Infection, Debris Without Surgery
LITTLE ROCK — A cardiologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the first physician in Arkansas to use a new device to remove infectious vegetation from a woman’s heart valve in a 45-minute minimally invasive procedure.
April 15, 2022
Family Celebrates Their ‘Walking Miracle’ with Donation to NICU
The Haupt family recently returned to UAMS to give a gift to the NICU in honor of their son’s fourth birthday. Micah Haupt, her husband Will, Hayes, and his 7-year-old brother Hutch were thrilled to be back in the NICU on April 8 after last year’s gift had to be presented outside due to COVID-19…
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