Oct. 9, 2013 | The first Rock Town Bacon Throwdown at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock featured 10 local professional chefs all serving samples of dishes that included bacon as an ingredient. Proceeds from the event, hosted by the UAMS Medical Center Auxiliary’s Aux Crew of young professionals, will go to the UAMS Patient Support Fund.
Oct. 8, 2013 | Oct. 8, 2013 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging today celebrated the opening of the Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program in El Dorado, providing new opportunities for the elderly to stay in their homes as they age.
Oct. 8, 2013 | Oct. 8, 2013 | The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised two contract options worth approximately $8.7 million with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to proceed with advanced development of a promising treatment for use in radiological or nuclear emergency situations.
Oct. 4, 2013 | Alison Harrill, Ph.D., a new faculty member in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, arrived on campus last month with the news that she is one of five nationwide recipients of a five-year, $500,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation in Regulatory Science Award.
Oct. 3, 2013 | Oct. 3, 2013 | Working in patient transport at UAMS Medical Center is “a blast” because he gets to help people, said Andrew Aston, an intern in the new UAMS Project SEARCH program that drew praise from Gov. Mike Beebe and others at an Oct. 1 event.
Oct. 1, 2013 | After years of sitting in a classroom and countless hours of studying for exams, 32 graduate students celebrated the next step in earning their doctorate degrees.
Sept. 27, 2013 | Sept. 27, 2013 | First- and second-year UAMS medical students took a key step toward becoming cool and confident third- and fourth-year students in future operating room clinical rotations during a Sept. 9 suturing workshop.
Sept. 26, 2013 | Eighty million Americans lack sufficient education in health care and disease prevention, a fact that is affecting hospital readmissions statistics, patient-doctor engagement and patient mortality rates, said Laura Noonan, M.D., a health literacy expert who visited UAMS last week.
Sept. 26, 2013 | Seven women set out to honor the UAMS doctor who gave their children the gift of life. Six years later, with gifts from more than 1,500 current and former patients and family members, this idea became a reality.
Sept. 25, 2013 | Sept. 25, 2013 | Margaret Hamburg, M.D., commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, was in Little Rock Sept. 10-11 to deliver the keynote address at the Global Summit on Regulatory Science, which was hosted by the National Center for Toxicological Research, the FDA’s premier regulatory science research center in Jefferson.