April 24, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today opened a new Urology Center in Premier Medical Plaza at 10915 Rodney Parham Road in west Little Rock. “Expanding into this west Little Rock location helps UAMS fulfill our mission to improve the health and well-being of all Arkansans by making services more...
April 24, 2023 | Days after devastating tornadoes tore through the state, students and faculty from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy gathered April 2 to help out their own while providing support and relief to the community. Donning ball caps and tool belts, pharmacy students and faculty arrived at homes affected by the...
April 21, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has opened the UAMS Health Orthopaedic & Spine Clinic at 4261 Stockton Drive, Suite 100, in North Little Rock, to treat a wide variety of musculoskeletal aches and pains. Among the specialties treated at the clinic are foot and ankle orthopaedics, hand and upper...
April 21, 2023 | There are roughly 750 species of butterfly in the United States. That fact may come as a surprise to most people, but probably not to the young patients on the Child Diagnostic Unit in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. The young children on the inpatient unit recently spent four weeks learning a great deal about...
April 20, 2023 | More than 100 UAMS College of Pharmacy students received scholarships in a ceremony held April 10. The annual tradition marked an opportunity for students to be recognized and for some, to meet the donors supporting their education. The college also announced the creation of three new scholarships, each representing a graduating class. “Each year, through...
April 20, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — To mark the 35th anniversary of the Medical Applications of Science for Health (MASH) program, a summer enrichment camp that allows high school students to learn about health career opportunities, Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation pledged a gift of $500,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Campuses, creating the...
April 19, 2023 | A professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health wrote an editorial examining the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) goal of making the United States the healthiest nation by 2030. Namvar Zohoori, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, a professor in the college’s Department of Epidemiology, wrote a paper...
April 19, 2023 | FAYETTEVILLE — A research team at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been approved for a five-year, $15 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the best mechanisms for postpartum follow up with new mothers to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. Maternal mortality rates in the United...
April 17, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Laura James, M.D., director of the UAMS Translational Research Institute, has been elected to a second term on the national Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Board of Directors. She joins 13 other directors at large from National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program institutions across...
April 17, 2023 | The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute awarded $850,000 in grants to 15 cancer researchers through Seeds of Science, the Institute’s intramural funding program. The long-standing program provides support for promising cancer research in its early stages, as well as studies that unite teams of researchers to tackle the most pressing issues related to cancer...