UAMS News
January 8, 2003
Drug Users Falling Through Health Care Net; UAMS Looks For The Holes
<p class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A social scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will examine drug abuse and related mental illnesses in rural populations in the Arkansas Delta, Appalachia in Kentucky, and Ohio thanks to a new federal grant of $6.1 million.</span> </p>
January 6, 2003
UAMS Leads Search for Answers on Cleft Palate, Other Biotin-related Birth Defects
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A biochemist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine is leading the study of how biotin, a micronutrient found in liver, egg yolk, milk, and yeast, may affect fetal development. There appears to be a link between the pregnant woman’s biotin intake and cleft palates, in which the roof of the baby’s mouth is split. There also may be a link to severely shortened arms and legs.</span>
December 30, 2002
Public Health Experts Joining New UAMS College
<span class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>Several public health experts are new members of the faculty of the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span><br />
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UAMS Scientist Gets $500,000 from New Myeloma Research Fund
<span class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A gene researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where researchers have achieved a survival rate for the rare and deadly cancer multiple myeloma that is twice the overall average, is among the first recipients of the Fund to Cure Myeloma</span>.</span>
December 20, 2002
UAMS Sponsors Free Glaucoma Seminar Jan. 17
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>LITTLE ROCK – </span>The Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will sponsor a free glaucoma seminar Friday, Jan. 17, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.</span>
UAMS Dermatologists Lead National Group Two Years in a Row
<span class=”content”></span><span class=”content”></span><span class=”content”> <span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) dermatopathologist Bruce R. Smoller, M.D., is the new president-elect of the American Society of Dermatopathology, marking the second straight year a UAMS professor has held the prestigious post.</span><br />
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Aromatique™ Gifts Raise $57,000 for UAMS
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The seventh annual winter AromatiqueT benefit sale at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) yielded almost $57,000 for patient needs, equipment, and research at Arkansas’s only academic health center. </span>
December 18, 2002
Free Weight Loss Seminar at UAMS Jan. 11
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will sponsor a free weight loss seminar Saturday, Jan. 11, from 10 a.m. to noon.</span>
Cabot High Crew Does Video of UAMS Health Professionals
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<p><span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>”Here, I am in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at UAMS, and I love my job,” Valerie Beck, R.N., tells high school students in a new career recruitment video for Cabot High School.</span></p>
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December 17, 2002
UAMS Honors John Lipton for Rural Health Care Advocacy
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has honored John Lipton of Warren, chairman of the Arkansas Highway Commission, for 20 years of advocacy for rural health care.</span>
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