UAMS News
January 28, 2003
UAMS Pediatrics Chief Elected to American Pediatric Society
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The chief of pediatrics at the <ST1:PLACE><ST1:PLACETYPE>University</ST1:PLACETYPE> of <ST1:PLACENAME>Arkansas</ST1:PLACENAME> </ST1:PLACE>for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been elected to the prestigious American Pediatric Society.</span>
Free Seminar on Colon Cancer Prevention at UAMS March 1
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free public seminar on prevention of colon cancer Sat., March 1.</span>
January 23, 2003
UAMS Gets $100,000 Myeloma Research Grant
<span class=”content” style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>A research project now underway at the <ST1:PLACE><ST1:PLACETYPE>University</ST1:PLACETYPE> of <ST1:PLACENAME>Arkansas</ST1:PLACENAME> </ST1:PLACE>for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to develop myeloma-killing white blood cells has earned a $100,000 grant from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF).</span>
January 16, 2003
UAMS Speech Pathologist Elected to International Council
<span class=”content”><span style=”font-size: 13px; font-family: arial;”>Dr. Thomas W. Guyette of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is one of two newly-elected members of the Executive Council of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association.</span><br />
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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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