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UAMS Begins Calling Postpartum Moms across Arkansas

Nov. 18, 2025 | Nurses at the Arkansas Center for Women & Infants’ Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have started calling postpartum moms across Arkansas to ensure that they and their babies are off to a healthy start.

Katie McClanahan (center) and her husband thanked the UAMS Trauma Team, Trauma Team, Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) and the Little Rock Fire Department for saving her life.

Grateful Patient Thanks UAMS, MEMS, LRFD for Rescue, Encourages Blood Donations

Nov. 17, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — Katie McClanahan, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two young children from midtown Little Rock, says she wouldn’t be alive to share her story without the extraordinary efforts of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Trauma Team, Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) and the Little Rock Fire Department.

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Shitiz Sriwastava, M.D., Neuroimmunologist Specializing in MS, Joins UAMS

Nov. 17, 2025 | Shitiz Sriwastava, M.D., a neuroimmunologist with expertise in multiple sclerosis (MS) research and treatment, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an associate professor of neurology. The board-certified neurologist comes to UAMS from The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and before that, West Virginia University in Morgantown, West...

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College of Public Health Alum Uses Legal System to Advocate for Access to Vaccines

Nov. 17, 2025 | Richard Hughes IV, J.D., MPH, seeks to improve the health of people throughout the nation. A native Arkansan, Hughes strives to reach his goal through advocating for the access and use of approved vaccines. “The way our health care system works regarding coverage for vaccines, the way we fund vaccines, the access to vaccines, there...

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Barber Connect Addresses Men’s Health and Celebrates Barbershop Talk Program

Nov. 13, 2025 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Barbershop Talk research team recently hosted its first-ever Barber Connect. The Oct. 27 showcase took place at Little Rock’s Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. It gave barbers who participate in the Barbershop Talk program the chance to network, learn more about...

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UAMS Study Finds Digital Barriers May Limit Rural Cancer Survivors from Participating in Research

Nov. 13, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — Limited access to digital resources may be one reason why rural cancer survivors are underrepresented in cancer research, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation. Researchers found that rural cancer survivors were willing to participate in cancer research studies. However, factors such...

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UAMS Researcher Leads $2.2 Million Project Addressing Youth Health in Arkansas

Nov. 12, 2025 | Ann Chou, Ph.D., MPH, professor for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, is leading a $2.2 million community-based study that addresses access to preventive health services for Arkansas’ youth. “We have challenges in our state and the idea is to work toward improving the situation as...

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UAMS Brain Injury Program Trains Law Enforcement on Recognizing, Responding to Brain Injuries

Nov. 12, 2025 | Over the past year, the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation’s Brain Injury Program has begun a major initiative to help law enforcement better recognize and respond to people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), aiming to promote safer encounters and deescalate incidents. Already the program has trained hundreds of officers and continues to gain...

Badger Pride Saves Lives: Arkadelphia High FBLA Champions UAMS MammoVan

Badger Pride Saves Lives: Arkadelphia High FBLA Champions UAMS MammoVan

Nov. 10, 2025 | The Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter at Arkadelphia High School is marking its seventh year of supporting the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) MammoVan, a mobile mammography program that provides lifesaving breast cancer screening to women across the Arkansas. What began as a simple pink T-shirt fundraiser in 2018 has grown...

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