July 20, 2016 | July 20, 2016 | UAMS Medical Center recently won the Most Wired Award for the second year in a row from the American Hospital Association Health Forum. The hospital, part of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has won the distinction nine times. It is one of only two hospitals in Arkansas to...
July 18, 2016 | July 18, 2016 | Nearly 200 Arkansas faith leaders, health ministries, educators, researchers and health care providers recently gathered in Little Rock to make connections and share ideas that will help reduce health disparities in Arkansas. The second annual Community-Campus Partnership Conference to Address Health Disparities was hosted by the University of Arkansas for Medical...
July 12, 2016 | July 12, 2016 | Inside gray and white boxes on simple metal shelves in UAMS Library’s Historical Research Center, two student researchers are finding colorful sources and acquiring valuable knowledge about the state’s medical past. Corbin Stinnett of Siloam Springs, a history major and senior at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Caitlin Beasley of...
July 6, 2016 | July 6, 2016 | UAMS obstetrician Curtis Lowery, M.D., spoke of the impact a UAMS telemedicine program has had on the care of high-risk pregnancies in Arkansas at a Politico health care panel June 9 in Washington, D.C. Lowery, chair of the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, outlined how ANGELS, a...
July 5, 2016 | July 5, 2016 | Learning how to take a blood pressure reading by practicing on a manikin that reacts like a human or getting hands-on experience and instruction compounding medicine aren’t common experiences at a summer camp. For the last ten years though, that’s been the idea behind the Pharmacy Camp at the UAMS College...
July 5, 2016 | July 5, 2016 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) early career researchers Joshua Kennedy, M.D., and Taren Swindle, Ph.D., are recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that will support their work over the next several years. In May, Kennedy, whose laboratory is at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) on the Arkansas...
July 1, 2016 | July 1, 2016 | If you truly want to make a difference, why not shoot for the moon? That’s the thinking behind the national Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an effort announced by President Barack Obama at the 2016 State of the Union address. The goal of the initiative is to double the rate of progress in...
June 29, 2016 | June 29, 2016 | There was no way it could be this bad, thought Tory Weatherford, M.D., a 2013 UAMS College of Medicine graduate and third-year medical resident at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida. The evening had been quiet and as the hours shifted from late Saturday night to early Sunday morning on June...
June 28, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK — A team of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers has received a federal grant to conduct the first comprehensive study of the dangers posed by synthetic marijuana products. The $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will enable a seven-member interdisciplinary...
June 27, 2016 | June 27, 2016 | Thirty-eight students in the physician assistant program in the UAMS College of Health Professions donned their white coats for the first time on May 20 and recited an oath to care for their patients. The students are at the beginning of a 28-month master’s degree program that will prepare them to provide...