Sickle Cell Program
October 1, 2019
Symposium Focuses on Past, Present, Future of Sickle Cell Disease Treatment
One patient with sickle cell disease can experience severe pain and other symptoms while another with the same disease type only has moderate or even mild pain crises, said UAMS’ Issam Makhoul, M.D. “What makes that disease so severe in one individual over another one?” he asked. “That’s what we need to learn more about….
January 22, 2019
Living with Sickle Cell, Pine Bluff Woman Retains Joy
Doctors told her mother she wouldn’t live past childhood. But Doris Carter proudly announces that she has her hands full at age 53 working as a nurse’s aide in Pine Bluff, having raised two daughters and now keeping up with seven grandchildren. When she was 3, Carter was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia, an inherited…
October 2, 2018
Symposium Spotlights Psychology of Sickle Cell Disease
By 2014, Shamonica Wiggins had reached a point where she couldn’t cope with her sickle cell disease. She felt lost and defeated until a therapist helped her try a new approach.
August 31, 2018
Sickle Cell Symposium Sept. 18 to Focus on ‘Mind, Body and Soul’
People with sickle cell disease, their families, health care professionals and the public are invited to the 2018 annual Sickle Cell Symposium at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The symposium is free.
November 21, 2017
Inspired Since Childhood, UAPB Graduate Hopes to One Day Treat Sickle Cell Patients
Nov. 21, 2017 | Xavius Hymes, of Pine Bluff, has had a lifelong support group to help him mange sickle cell disease. Now the 22-year-old is looking to the future and the possibility of becoming a doctor to care for patients like himself. Diagnosed at birth, doctors say Hymes has always been proactive in taking…
October 27, 2017
Symposium Focuses on Bone Marrow Transplants for Sickle Cell
Oct. 27, 2017 | At the end of the Sickle Cell Symposium on Oct. 19 at UAMS, a young woman at a microphone during a question-and-answer session boiled the evening’s presentations down to one question: “I haven’t heard the word ‘cure’ used much tonight. Can you call this a cure?” Pooja Motwani, M.D., said, “Yes,…
September 21, 2017
Sickle Cell Disease
These programs were first broadcast the week of September 25, 2017.
September 15, 2017
Sickle Cell Symposium Oct. 19 to Focus on Stem Cell Transplants for Sickle Cell Disease
Sept. 15, 2017 | People with sickle cell disease, their families, health care professionals and the public are invited to the 2017 annual Sickle Cell Symposium at 6 p.m. Oct. 19 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The symposium is free for the general public, and $20 for health care providers who…
October 12, 2016
Advocacy, Expertise on Display at UAMS’ Sickle Cell Symposium
Oct. 12, 2016 | After attending the Sickle Cell Symposium at UAMS, Dalissa Robinson didn’t feel as alone in coping with her sickle cell disease as she sometimes does. “I was impressed by what strong advocates the symposium speakers are,” Robinson said. “We don’t have enough advocates for sickle cell disease. I like how they…
September 15, 2016
Sickle Cell Symposium Oct. 6-7 to Focus on Patient Care, Managing a Pain Crisis
Sept. 15, 2016 | People with sickle cell disease, their families, health care professionals and the public are invited to the free, fifth annual Sickle Cell Symposium on Oct. 6-7 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. The Sickle Cell Symposium is presented by Future Builders Inc. in collaboration…
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