UAMS News

UAMS Comprehensive Care at Home Provides ‘Pleasant Hospitalization’ for Veteran

Having a health crisis is never convenient, but it often seems to happen at the worst possible time. This was the case for 88-year-old Vernon “Toby” Richards, who was traveling out of state with his wife. Often struggling with chronic health issues because of his exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam, he is a loyal and long-time patient of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hospital system.

‘Miracles Still Happen’: After Nearly Losing His Eye, Conway Man Sees Clearly Again

Four years ago, Jeremy Richie’s life turned upside-down when an accident blinded him in his left eye. Now, after multiple surgeries, a special contact lens and a team effort from eye specialists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, his sight has been restored to almost normal….

Little Rock Man Grateful For ‘Remarkable’ UAMS Stroke Team

The morning of Wednesday, March 15, started out like any other day for Cam Deacon.

During his morning shower, he suddenly knew that something was wrong.

‘Everything Got Better,’ after Coming to UAMS, says Leukemia Lymphoma Patient

By the time Thomas Wages arrived at UAMS on February 15, 2022, he had been through one cancer diagnosis and 13 types of intensive chemotherapy. He was 70. The active father of four was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) in 2008, devastating news that came during one of the happiest times of his life….

Conway Man Grateful For New Approach to Prostate Problem

The future was anything but hopeful for John Apple, 70, a retired corporate accountant from Conway.

Diagnosed in 2021 with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly known as an enlarged prostate, Apple was told by his physician that he had only two treatment options: a surgical procedure that could likely have little effect on his condition or wearing a catheter the rest of his life.

UAMS Hand Surgeon Becomes First Surgical Patient at The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital

Just two and a half weeks after Thomas Frazier, M.D., underwent a total knee replacement as the first surgical patient at The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), he was back to seeing patients in his orthopaedic clinic. By the third week, he was performing surgery at the…

‘Roll With the Punches’: Sickle Cell Patient Keeps a Positive Outlook on Life

Sickle cell disease hasn’t made life easy for Xavius Hymes, 27, of Pine Bluff, but he hasn’t let it keep him from dreaming big. In fact, he uses the disease as fuel to keep going. “If anything, I feel like sickle cell anemia has made me mentally stronger,” Hymes said in a YouTube video. “It’s…

Camden Mom Donates Tiny Angel Gowns to NICU

| One day as Haley Myers Clark looked out the window of her Camden home, lost in painful memories of losing her premature son, Noah, a little blue butterfly fluttered by. “My mom would always tell me, ‘If you see a butterfly, that’s somebody from Heaven coming to see you, and that’s God sending a…

For Hot Springs Woman, Sickle Cell Disease “Didn’t Prevent Me from Doing Anything”

After years of learning how to handle pain crises when they come and developing a routine for care, Cyncere Tidwell says sickle cell disease is just another part of her life. “Other than the pain crises, sickle cell doesn’t bother me,” she said. “I’ve been dealing with it for so long that it’s nothing new…

“I Have More Compassion for Patients,” Says UAMS Nurse and Colon Cancer Survivor

John Reed, RN, is on the front lines of cancer. As a nurse in the UAMS Endoscopy Lab, he spends about 50 weeks a year helping patients through colon cancer screening procedures, mainly colonoscopies. But after a routine doctor’s appointment in 2020, Reed became the patient. “I felt fine, but my iron levels were really…