UAMS News
January 8, 2015
Comprehensive Eye Care Under One Roof
When Peggy Hundley first started having eye problems in the late 1980s, she turned to the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute. After multiple tests, she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a vascular condition that can affect many organs, including the eyes. Hundley was puzzled by the diagnosis and began an extensive search to learn…
January 7, 2015
Head Start/Early Head Start Fall Registration Opens Jan. 26
The Head Start /Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is accepting applications beginning Jan. 26 for the 2015-2016 school year.
Daughter’s Legacy Is Paying It Forward
When Pauline Wagnon’s mother, Virginia Thompson, was diagnosed with cancer in the mid-1940s and treated for free and cured at UAMS, Wagnon set her mind to paying it forward.
January 6, 2015
Freedom From Smoking Support Group to Begin Jan. 14 at UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
LITTLE ROCK – Make 2015 the year you quit smoking for good with the help of a free support group at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
December 30, 2014
Family Home Donation Benefits Neonatal Intensive Care
Arkansas’ tiniest babies got a special holiday gift thanks to a fundraiser hosted by the Family Home.
December 29, 2014
UAMS Physicians Save Patient from Aortal Aneurysm Rupture
Dec. 29, 2014 | One day during Thanksgiving week in 2013, Reuben Stewart Ray laid down in his Nashville home expecting to die. Waking up again at all was a surprise, but his surprise grew even bigger when he awoke to realize he was at UAMS Medical Center and expected to live.
December 23, 2014
Psychiatrist Peter S. Jensen Joins UAMS
LITTLE ROCK – Peter S. Jensen, M.D., has joined the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a professor and acting director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
December 22, 2014
UAMS Leads in Research, Patient Care, Education in 2014
Dec. 22, 2014 | UAMS saw some new faces in leadership positions in research in 2014 alongside a year of dynamic, positive change with several new expansions in patient care.
December 19, 2014
UAMS Performs First Heart-Stopping Surgery to Repair Aneurysm
Ashley Bell’s heart stopped beating while she was on the operating table. But that was exactly what her doctors intended.
December 18, 2014
UAMS to Offer Peripheral Arterial Disease Screening Jan. 5
LITTLE ROCK — A free screening for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) will be held Jan. 5 at the Maumelle Senior Wellness Center at 550 Edgewood Drive in Maumelle by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
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