March 31, 2016 | March 31, 2016 | One in 83 central Arkansas children, or 1.2 percent, were identified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), according to a new report by the Arkansas Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (AR ADDM) Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The regional estimate is based on information collected from...
March 31, 2016 | March 31, 2016 | Beth Anderson, senior student in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2016 Alan D. Waggoner Sonographer Student Scholarship Award funded by contributions to the ASE Foundation’s 2015 Annual Appeal. In addition to a monetary award to go towards tuition costs, Beth has also been invited to...
March 31, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK – A research team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) microbiologist Mark Smeltzer, Ph.D., and University of Arkansas chemist Jingyi Chen, Ph.D., has developed an alternative therapeutic approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant infections. The novel method uses a targeted nanodrug consisting of gold nano “cages” loaded with antibiotic that when irradiated...
March 30, 2016 | March 30, 2016 | A group of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) helped discover a new molecular “earmark” on DNA that may determine the sex of all mammals. The sex of human and all mammalian babies may be determined by a simple earmarking of an ancient virus that inserted itself...
March 29, 2016 | March 29, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center put teams of students and clinicians on the gymnasium floor March 19 as it scored its third annual March MAN-ness Health Event victory. More than 50 men and women circulated through rooms on each side of the...
March 28, 2016 | March 28, 2016 | Nursing scientists have and will continue to play an important role in research and its impact on health care, a scientific director in the National Institute of Nursing Research told about 50 UAMS College of Nursing faculty, staff and students. Ann Cashion, Ph.D., R.N., a graduate of the college’s master’s degree...
March 25, 2016 | March 25, 2016 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students proved themselves to be doubly good this year by earning recognition for the second year in a row as the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) National Chapter of the Year. APhA-ASP, as it did in 2015, presented the chapter with the honor at its...
March 23, 2016 | March 23, 2016 | Family presence when a child is undergoing tracheal intubation in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can safely be implemented as part of a family-centered care model, reported a research team led by a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) professor in the March 7 issue of JAMA Pediatrics. ...
March 22, 2016 | March 22, 2016 | UAMS honored 32 Phenomenal Women on March 17 for their many contributions to the institution and its health care mission. The event was part of the annual UAMS celebration of National Women’s History Month in March. This year’s group of Phenomenal Women was one of the largest in the seven years...
March 21, 2016 | March 21, 2016 | Health care professionals gathered at UAMS on March 11 for the opportunity to learn the latest research and treatment innovations in colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies. Offered by the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the 19th Annual Charles William Rasco, III Symposium on Colorectal Cancer and GI Malignancies brought...