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…
With his wife, Jennifer, by his side, the 62-year-old says he’s confident he’s got the best team of professionals with the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at UAMS as he faces a life that’s slipping away.Tom Webb knows a lot about building confidence, teaching strategy and working toward a goal as a team. “I was…
Only a few nerves kept Lisa Shelton’s left arm attached to her body when she arrived at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) after it was almost severed by a truck door. In December 2012, Shelton, of Jerusalem, was on her way to meet her sister for lunch in Morrilton when her car…
Lynne Reynolds’ journey to UAMS started with a tumble down 19 stair steps. “I blacked out,” Reynolds said of that September 2007 mishap, which resulted in an ambulance ride to the nearest hospital, an eventual diagnosis of nonalcoholic liver cirrhosis and a liver transplant. Mike Scott’s path to a UAMS liver transplant began on Christmas…
As an ordinary 11-year-old girl, Emalyn Daniel had two questions for her doctor: “Will it hurt?” And, “When can I go swimming?” Emalyn’s medical condition, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), is anything but ordinary. So her parents, Emma and Forrest Daniell, had many questions to ask UAMS interventional radiologist Mollie Meek, M.D. In her father’s family, one…