March 12, 2010 | March 12, 2010 | Stacy Rudnicki, M.D., a champion at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in the fight against ALS and related diseases, was honored recently with a professorship dedicated to that cause.
March 10, 2010 | March 10, 2010 | “Histo-what?” Histology may not be as familiar to those outside health care as terms like pediatrics or cardiology. Patients are familiar with providing urine or blood samples for analysis by laboratory scientists in UAMS clinics or the UAMS Medical Center, but samples of human tissue are often collected for analysis during surgical procedures.
March 5, 2010 | March 5, 2010 | As the world leader in treating multiple myeloma patients, the UAMS Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy houses a treasure chest of momentous data just waiting to be discovered.
March 2, 2010 | March 2, 2010 | Jerry G. Jones, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and director of the Center for Children at Risk, a collaboration of UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), recently received an award for his longtime advocacy for children at risk from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Feb. 25, 2010 | Feb. 25, 2010 | John Wagner, M.D., is trying to eliminate the “in” from “incurable,” and his quest has led him to a significant medical discovery — umbilical cord blood transplants can significantly increase the survival rate of leukemia patients.
Feb. 23, 2010 | Feb. 23, 2010 | The ripple effect from last summer’s largest-ever research grant earned by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has reached 17 faculty members dedicated to clinical and translational research.
Feb. 19, 2010 | Feb. 19, 2010 | Hoping to improve detection of suicide risk among patients in hospital emergency departments, the UAMS Department of Emergency Medicine is among eight sites participating in a National Institutes of Health study.
Feb. 12, 2010 | Feb. 12, 2010 | Internationally known leader in the field of skull base surgery J.D. Day, M.D., has been named chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Feb. 9, 2010 | Feb. 9, 2010| – More low-income Arkansas women now have access to needed cervical cancer tests thanks to an innovative research project and communications technology that links doctors at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to state health clinics at Clarksville, Hope and Wynne.
Feb. 4, 2010 | Understanding the critical role nurses play in health care, Sharon Knighten, of Harrison, recently presented a check for $100,000 to Claudia Barone, Ed.D., R.N., dean of the UAMS College of Nursing, to establish three scholarships in the college.