Twenty-one-year-old Alissa Pitcher of Grand Rapids, Mich., was moved last spring by a Mena, Arkansas, mother’s plea on behalf of her son. The request for prayers came via e-mail from an old family friend, Tammy Hamelink, whose 23-year-old son, Kryn, was in desperate need of a kidney transplant. As Alissa’s mother read Tammy’s e-mail aloud,…
When attorney Ken Stoll of North Little Rock was diagnosed in 1991 with multiple myeloma, many would have called it a death sentence. He now thanks his doctor who referred him to the then-fledgling program for multiple myeloma at UAMS. It was that doctor’s foresight, coupled with UAMS’ dedication to patients with this rare cancer…
Before she enrolled in a UAMS clinical trial, Minnie Storment, 68, of Plainview, thought she had received every possible treatment for her thyroid cancer. Discovered at a late stage in 1996, Storment’s cancer never responded to treatments that work in most people, and over the years it spread, attacking her bones, liver and lungs. Thyroid…
The walk from Greg Pacheco’s front door to his car is not a long one. But in 2003, the 30-year-old could barely muster enough energy to take those few steps. Today, the California native is walking, driving and traveling halfway across the country thanks to a new therapy offered at UAMS. “I still have Castleman’s…
Lung cancer usually strikes without obvious symptoms, but Ray Harper’s increasingly labored breathing convinced his wife that he needed to see a doctor. “I didn’t really notice it, said Ray, who quit smoking 10 years ago. But my wife did.” After his wife Pamela Harper got him to see a doctor, an X-ray showed a…
Defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Super Bowl XLVIII champion Clinton McDonald learned that he has something in common with UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute patients when he paid them a visit last week — they are fighters.
Defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Super Bowl XLVIII champion Clinton McDonald learned that he has something in common with UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute patients when he paid them a visit last week — they are fighters.
If you live in Little Rock’s Hillcrest neighborhood near UAMS, maybe you have attended one of her “know your neighbors” front porch watermelon festivals. If you exercise in the Ottenheimer Fitness Center at Reynolds Institute, you recognize her as that “incredible 90-year-old woman who works out just about every day.” And if you are Paul…
By Kate Franks Betsy Parkinson of Little Rock had 27 fractures in her skull when she came to the UAMS Emergency Department on June 29, 2010. “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men” weren’t available to put her back together, but, thankfully, the staff at UAMS was. “Dr. Moody, Dr.Westfall and the amazing emergency…
Ed and Margo Jevicky say a series of miracles saved their 18-year-old son, Michael, and his right arm when his motorcycle slammed into a Jeep. One of them was landing in the hands of two well-regarded, highly specialized University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) surgeons. “It changed Michael’s. The outcome could have been so…