UAMS News
March 18, 2003
UAMS Pediatrics Chair to Lead International Association
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The chair of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the new president of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, an organization of pediatric chairs in the United States and Canada.</span> </p>
March 14, 2003
UAMS Free Public Seminar on Adolescent Mental Health
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>UAMS Psychiatry will hold a public seminar on teenaged mental health Tues., April 29, in Little Rock.</span> </p>
UAMS Breast Cancer Project Receives $40,000 Avon Grant
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund has awarded a $39,684.00 one-year grant to The Witness Project at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. It is the second year that the program has received Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund funding.</span> </p>
President Jimmy Carter to Speak at UAMS April 1
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>Jimmy Carter, the 39<sup>th</sup> president of the United States, will be the special guest of honor at an April 1 ceremony celebrating the opening of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span> </p>
March 11, 2003
UAMS Reports Dramatic Increase in Uninsured Patients, Charges at Arkansas Hospitals
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) released a new analysis of the impact of health insurance unavailability on Arkansas hospitals March 11, showing that admissions of patients without insurance increased by 30 percent between 2000 and 2001 while the average charges for those admissions increased from $8,185 to $9,268.</span>
March 4, 2003
Three Doctors Join Jones Eye Institute
<span class=”content”>Dr. A. Henry Thomas, Dr. Michael Wiggins and Dr. Nicola Kim recently joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), expanding the patient care at the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute. </span>
March 3, 2003
PET Centers, Hospitals Across State Join with UAMS to Bring Medical Cyclotron, Needed Isotopes to Arkansas Baptist Health, St. Bernard’s, St. Joseph’s PET Among Partners
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>Arkansas physicians and hospitals that currently must go out of state to buy isotopes necessary for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning, will soon have access to those isotopes in-state, thanks to a new facility at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span> </p>
February 27, 2003
UAMS Doubles Efforts to Recruit Physicians to the Delta
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has doubled its efforts to recruit physicians and nurse practitioners to rural areas of the Arkansas Delta by hiring a second full-time recruiter to serve the lower Delta region.</span>
February 24, 2003
Better Medicines Are an Urgent Need for People With Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure, UAMS Shows
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) reports today that more effective medications are needed to control high blood pressure in many older people.</span>
February 14, 2003
Russians Praise UAMS for Decade of Partnership
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The U.S. ambassador to Russia and the mayor of the Russian city of Volgograd recently praised the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for its 10-year partnership with the Volgograd medical school.</span></p>
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