UAMS News


March 3, 2005

UAMS Offers Diabetes Education Program For Health Care Professionals

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LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will offer the latest information on diabetes research and treatment to health care professionals during a real-time interactive television presentation airing March 15 at several hospitals and UAMS Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) throughout the state.


March 2, 2005

UAMS First in State Designated as MDA/ALS Research Center

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LITTLE ROCK – The Muscular Dystrophy Association today officially designated the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an MDA/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Research and Clinical Center, one of only 33 in the country.


March 1, 2005

UAMS Breast Cancer Awareness Program Receives Grant from Avon Foundation

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LITTLE ROCK – The Witness Project, a program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to increase awareness of breast cancer in the Delta, has been awarded a $26,000 one-year grant from the Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund.


February 28, 2005

UAMS Memory Research Center Receives $100,000 From Beverly Healthcare

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LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Memory Research Center at the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging received $100,000 on Monday from Beverly Healthcare to support efforts to improve care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.


February 25, 2005

Free or Low-Cost Health Screenings for Women Offered March 16 in Arkansas County

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LITTLE ROCK – Free or low-cost breast exams, pap tests and mammograms are available to Arkansas 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 and the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC).


Burns Receives Medical Education Excellence Professorship

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LITTLE ROCK – E. Robert Burns, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, was recently invested with the Charles Hartzell Lutterloh and Charles M. Lutterloh Medical Education Excellence Professorship.


February 22, 2005

Contests Feature High School Jazz Bands, Natural BeautiesAt ACRC-Sponsored Midsouth Summit Black Expo

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Contests Feature High School Jazz Bands, Natural BeautiesAt ACRC-Sponsored Midsouth Summit Black Expo


February 16, 2005

UAMS Surgery Professor to Discuss Burns At South Arkansas Area Health Education Center

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LITTLE ROCK – John Cone, M.D., professor of surgery, burn service and critical care in the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will give a lecture at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, March 3, at the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) for South Arkansas in El Dorado.


February 14, 2005

Music, Dance and Cancer Awareness FeaturedDuring ACRC-Sponsored Midsouth Summit Black Expo

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Music, Dance and Cancer Awareness FeaturedDuring ACRC-Sponsored Midsouth Summit Black Expo


February 8, 2005

UAMS Head Start Program to Register Pre-school Children

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LITTLE ROCK – The Head Start / Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is accepting applications for the 2005 – 2006 school year.



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