Dec. 8, 2016 | Dec. 8, 2016 | A project to develop a new type of microscope with unprecedented speed and resolution has revealed previously unseen parts of human cells, as highlighted in a Nature Photonics article co-authored by two researchers in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Brian Storrie, Ph.D., and Vladimir Lupashin, Ph.D.,...
Dec. 7, 2016 | Dec. 7, 2016 | W. Brooks Gentry, M.D., chair of the Department of Anesthesiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Dec. 6 as the inaugural holder of the Carmelita S. Pablo, M.D., Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology. Gentry has been at UAMS for two decades as...
Dec. 6, 2016 | Dec. 6, 2016 | For some children, reading comes naturally. For others, it can be a difficult and frustrating endeavor. Camp Can Read worked to give those struggling readers the tools that they need to unlock the mysteries of reading — and make it fun.
Dec. 5, 2016 | Dec. 5, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is collaborating with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Celgene Corp. to compile the largest set of high-quality genetic data related to myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the blood. Brian Walker, Ph.D., a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Internal...
Dec. 5, 2016 | Dec. 5, 2016 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute honored UAMS’ many Arkansas community partners Nov. 18 with its fourth annual Community Partner Celebration. During the event at the Centre at University Park in Little Rock, Naomi Cottoms, executive director of Tri County Rural Health Network (Tri County), accepted the first Chancellor’s Community Research Partner...
Dec. 2, 2016 | Dec. 2, 2016 | UAMS College of Public Health student ReeShema Britt presented her research on nutrition for the elderly at two conferences recently. Britt presented her paper, “Raising Awareness in the Elderly Nutritional Needs for African Americans,” at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, held Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 in...
Dec. 1, 2016 | Dec. 1, 2016 | There is a simple reason volunteers return year after year to give away free medical foot care and shoes to the homeless during the Soles4Souls event at River City Ministry in North Little Rock. “I think it makes people feel good,” said Ruth Thomas, M.D., professor in the Department of Orthopaedic...
Nov. 30, 2016 | Nov. 30, 2016 | Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West Regional Campus clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined. By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients...
Nov. 29, 2016 | Nov. 29, 2016 | For more than nine years, June O’Keefe has quietly made a difference in the lives of Arkansas’ cancer patients. Her efforts were recognized Nov. 17 when she was named Volunteer of the Year by the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary. “June is always upbeat, outgoing and has a wonderful...
Nov. 28, 2016 | Nov. 28, 2016 | UAMS researchers spent an evening discussing structures within the basic unit of all living things, a cell, at the latest wine-and-cheese reception hosted Nov. 9 by the College of Medicine to highlight medical research. Fourteen projects were featured at the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: Basic Subcellular Mechanisms in the UAMS Winthrop...