LITTLE ROCK — A human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, discovered by a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher and recently shown to be safe, is being made available to a larger group of Arkansas women for further testing. In her recently completed phase I study involving 34 women, researcher Mayumi Nakagawa, M.D., Ph.D., demonstrated…
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…
LITTLE ROCK – Enjoy the luck of the Irish this St. Patrick’s Day while you support cancer patients in Arkansas. Day at the Races is set for 11:30 a.m. March 17 at Oaklawn Jockey Club in Hot Springs. Guests will enjoy lunch and an afternoon of thoroughbred racing benefiting the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute…
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,…
Dec. 17, 2015 | UAMS had something to cheer about Dec. 10 when the Perryville High School cheerleaders donated $1,000 in support of its mobile mammography program. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the cheerleaders sold pink hair extensions at their football games, with a goal of raising $1,000. “We wanted the money to…
Nov. 24, 2015 | Jamie Whitaker, of Hensley, knew her eyesight was diminishing. As someone who loved to read, Whitaker could tell she was having more difficulty making out the words. It reached the point where she had trouble reading road signs and distinguishing whether an oncoming vehicle was a truck or car. Still, she…
LITTLE ROCK –Sanjay Maraboyina, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a radiation oncologist and sees patients at the UAMS Radiation Oncology Center. Maraboyina also is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the UAMS College of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of…
LITTLE ROCK – New findings on juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and collaborators at other institutions were published online this month by the medical journal Nature Genetics. UAMS scientists collaborating on the research titled “The Genomic Landscape of Juvenile Myelomoncytic Leukemia” were led by Peter…
Sept. 2, 2015 | One day after a total knee replacement, Jeanne Nash is able to move her leg up and down. With assistance from her daughter, Kayla, she’s even able to walk across her hospital room.
LITTLE ROCK – Nine of the 10 cancer physicians from Arkansas named as “2015 Top Cancer Doctors” in the United States are from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. The Top Cancer Doctors list was printed in the July 31-Aug. 7, 2015, issue of Newsweek in…