UAMS News
April 10, 2007
UAMS Hosts Public Seminar on Arthritis and Back Pain
LITTLE ROCK – A free, public seminar on arthritis and back pain will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon April 28 in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
April 9, 2007
UAMS to Offer Free Head and Neck Cancer Screenings April 20
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is offering free head and neck cancer screenings from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 20 on the sixth floor of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC). Screenings will be conducted by the UAMS Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery.
April 6, 2007
Free or Low-Cost Women’s Health Screenings Offered May 9, Thanks to UAMS Witness Project
LITTLE ROCK – Free or low-cost mammograms are available May 9 to Woodruff County women 40 and older who qualify through The Witness Project, a community-based cancer education program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Public Health.
April 5, 2007
Math – Music Link to Be Explored in April Science Café
LITTLE ROCK – The Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its second public forum on April 24, focusing on the learning link between math and music.
April 4, 2007
UAMS Surgeon V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., Named to American Board of Surgery
LITTLE ROCK — V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director of the breast cancer program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named a director of the American Board of Surgery for a six-year term beginning July 1.
April 3, 2007
UAMS Hosts April 12 Seminar on Male Incontinence, Impotence
LITTLE ROCK – Surgery rid 50-year-old professional musician Dennis Holt of prostate cancer, but it also left him incontinent. Holt and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) urology expert John R. Delk II, M.D., will talk about male incontinence and impotence during a free seminar on Thursday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium at the UAMS Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
Governor Signs Funding for Cancer Center Expansion into Law
LITTLE ROCK – Gov. Mike Beebe today signed into law a plan to provide up to $50 million in matching funds to build a major expansion of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as well as support patient care and research programs.
April 2, 2007
Myeloma Researchers Find New Tool for Identifying High-Risk Cases
A genetic analysis model developed by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has outperformed all current clinical tests for identifying patients with aggressive multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
UAMS Multiple Myeloma Research Shows Promise
LITTLE ROCK – A discovery stemming from multiple myeloma research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) could lead to significant new treatments for bone-related cancers and diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
Law Promotes Medical Use of Stem Cells from Umbilical Cords
LITTLE ROCK – Gov. Mike Beebe has signed into law a measure that will allow Arkansas to begin storing and researching potentially life-saving stem cells harvested from the umbilical cords of pregnant women. The law was hailed by its sponsor and a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) physician as a method for promoting potentially life-saving treatments in Arkansas.
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