Aug. 16, 2023 | FAYETTEVILLE — New Community Food Lockers installed at St. James Missionary Baptist Church will allow the church’s food pantry clients to receive food outside of regular business hours. The lockers were installed as part of a joint effort between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the Northwest Arkansas Food Insecurity Community of Practice...
Aug. 16, 2023 | FAYETTEVILLE — Rural women with cancer often receive financial support from within their communities and from formal organizations, but not all patients have equal access to this assistance, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Community Health & Research. To better understand financial challenges and...
Aug. 14, 2023 | A $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Emergency Medicine to revolutionize the ways in which it treats pain and trains new doctors. The award funds a three-year project to train UAMS emergency physicians, advanced practice...
Aug. 11, 2023 | The Project Heal Rural Arkansas team is recruiting qualified individuals to participate in their violence intervention research. A research study supported by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute KL2 Scholars Program and housed in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Project...
Aug. 10, 2023 | On June 21, the longest day of the year and the summer solstice, about 200 student researchers over the course of two hours gathered in the grassy courtyard of the UAMS Biomedical Research II building to share Loblolly Ice Cream and socialize. Mohamed Elasri, Ph.D., UAMS associate vice chancellor for research, attended and said the...
Aug. 10, 2023 | The first nine UAMS students to earn Master of Science degrees in dietetics graduated Aug. 4 in a milestone event for them and for the degree program they had just completed.
Aug. 10, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) recently awarded more than half a million dollars to medical researchers, including two pain specialists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), to study non-opioid alternatives for treating post-traumatic headache, a common after-effect of concussion and other forms of...
Aug. 8, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Steven Barger, Ph.D., professor of geriatrics in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, has received a five-year federal grant to support his research on the role of glucose transport in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The project will receive $382,500 in funding for the current grant year...
Aug. 7, 2023 | Hanging out in a surgical waiting room can be a tense or a monotonous experience, depending on why and how long you’re there. But an artist-in-residence program at The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) gives patients and their loved ones something to focus on besides their anxiety,...
Aug. 7, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Robert H. Hopkins Jr., M.D., a professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and director of the UAMS Division of General Internal Medicine, has been appointed medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). “Dr. Hopkins is well-known and respected within the...