UAMS News
October 27, 2006
UAMS to Share with Hope Pre-K Teachers Novel Ways to Teach Health Science
LITTLE ROCK – Hope-area pre-kindergarten teachers are invited to participate in a free workshop Nov. 1 about novel ways to teach students about the cardio-pulmonary system as part of a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Partners in Health Sciences (PIHS) program.
Free or Low-Cost Women’s Health Screenings Offered Nov. 29, Thanks to UAMS Witness Project
LITTLE ROCK – Free or low-cost mammograms are available Nov. 29 to Lee 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.
October 25, 2006
Attorneys Thornton, Smith Join UAMS as Legal Counsel
LITTLE ROCK — Rhonda Thornton and Elizabeth Thomas Smith have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as legal counsel. Thornton and Smith are associate general counsels in the University of Arkansas System’s Office of General Counsel.
October 24, 2006
$348,000 Grant Funds UAMS Research of Multiple Sclerosis
LITTLE ROCK — A researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $348,487 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study the cause and possible therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic neurological disease affecting multiple regions in the brain and spinal cord.
October 16, 2006
UAMS to Offer Free Seminar on Infertility Treatments
LITTLE ROCK — Physicians from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will conduct a free seminar on infertility from 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 4 in the Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium of the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.
October 12, 2006
UAMS to Start Delta PROMISE for Treating Teen Substance Abuse
LITTLE ROCK – About 180 teenagers with substance abuse problems will be able to get help from a grant recently awarded to a team at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI) for providing treatment in a part of the state where no such services exist.
October 11, 2006
Hodges Receives Distinguished Service Award
LITTLE ROCK – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing Dean Linda Hodges, Ed.D., R.N., has received the Arkansas Hospital Association’s Distinguished Service Award.
Groundbreaking Marks Major Expansion to UAMS Medical Center
Groundbreaking Marks Major Expansion to UAMS Medical Center
October 9, 2006
UAMS Finds Statins Extend Life for Elderly at Risk of Dying
LITTLE ROCK – In the largest study of its kind, J.L. Mehta, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has found that cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins increased the life expectancy of elderly patients by an average of two years compared to non-statin users.
October 4, 2006
UAMS Witness Project Director Named Purpose Prize Fellow
LITTLE ROCK — Charlie Stayton, director of the Witness Project at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named an inaugural Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures, a national think tank and project incubator that uses the talents of older adults to promote social change.
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