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April 20, 2020
Sensory Room Lets Kids Work Through Problems
A room once intended for isolating patients in distress has become a favorite of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute’s youngest charges, thanks to the addition of a number of components designed to both calm and stimulate them. The Child Diagnostic Unit, an inpatient unit for patients 2 to 12 years old, was intended to be…
April 14, 2020
$765,789 Grant to Focus on Racial, Ethnic Health Disparities
LITTLE ROCK — A five-year, $765,789 grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ((UAMS) will support teaching graduate students advanced analytics to address racial and ethnic health disparities. The grant, from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), establishes the Arkansas Center for Health Disparities T32 Pre-doctoral Research Training Program….
April 13, 2020
UAMS Names Inaugural Research Academy Scholars
An inaugural class of six UAMS faculty has been selected as Research Academy Scholars, a joint initiative of the UAMS Division of Research and Innovation and UAMS Translational Research Institute. The new scholars program includes the Mentored Grant-Writing Program, with training from a nationally recognized grant-writing expert and mentorship from UAMS faculty with strong track…
April 8, 2020
Seven Receive Inaugural Team Science Awards
The UAMS Translational Research Institute today announced its first Team Science Voucher Program recipients. The voucher program aims to increase the quantity, quality and effectiveness of cross-disciplinary research at UAMS. Awards of up to $50,000 went to seven UAMS teams from a pool of 26 applications. A study section (group) of 10 UAMS faculty reviewers…
April 7, 2020
Louisiana Matriarch Leans on Faith, Family, Friends in Fighting Myeloma
Lessie Credeur’s big, Cajun clan is the heart of the home she shares with husband, Clint, near Lafayette, Louisiana. The stay-at-home mother of six, now enjoying the next generation of her extended family, savors time with her 14 grandchildren, ranging from 16 years to 4 months. “We have 11 girls and three boys and we…
April 2, 2020
Diamondhead Man Beats 3 Types of Cancer with UAMS’ ‘World-Class Care’
Larry Seals doesn’t back down from a challenge. As a highly decorated helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, Seals saw more than his share of conflict and hardship. But through it all, he never lost his sense of humor or positive attitude.
March 26, 2020
Floater Removal Gets Patient Back on the Tennis Court
Jim Winter realized something was wrong on the tennis court. “In the last three to four years, I started having difficulty seeing tennis balls on the tennis court,” said Winter, a retired emeritus research professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Winter was also having trouble working on a computer or reading books…
March 17, 2020
UAMS Scientists Awarded Grants for Cancer Research
Newly awarded grants are advancing research efforts at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Three Seeds of Science small grant awards of $50,000 each were presented March 5 to UAMS cancer researchers at “The Doctor is in” event hosted by the Envoys volunteer advocacy group.
March 9, 2020
UAMS Researchers Have COVID-19’s ‘Fingerprint’
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has the attention of biomedical researchers across the globe, including at UAMS. Researchers at the UAMS Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology & Medicine (ArC-GEM) are applying their comparative genomic analysis and sequencing prowess to the disease. The ArC-GEM team has also studied the Ebola virus, Zika virus, and the mumps outbreak…
March 3, 2020
E-Cigarette Expert Warns of Health Issues, Advocates Flavor Ban
E-cigarettes are likely bad for human health and state and local governments should help prevent the spread of their use, especially among young people, by adopting bans on flavored nicotine products. That was the takeaway message from Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., a tobacco control researcher and the featured speaker Feb. 13 at the UAMS Winthrop P….
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