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UAMS Offers Free Cooking Workshop for Parkinson’s Patients
LITTLE ROCK — The Movement Disorders Clinic at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free cooking workshop for patients with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers on May 19. The workshop, this time featuring a Mother’s Day theme including tea sandwiches, will be from 10 a.m. to noon in the Culinary…
Conference Brings Together Organizations to Discuss Health Disparities, Potential Solutions
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Arkansas Center for Health Disparities (ARCHD) held a two-day conference in North Little Rock for its community partners and individuals from throughout the state. The center, which is part of the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, created…
UAMS Pharmacy Students Participate in Association’s Regional Conference
Ten students represented the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association at a regional conference that gave them the opportunity to network with peers, pharmacists and potential employers. The conference, held March 31-April 1 in New Orleans, included pharmacy students from the organization’s West Coast, Midwest and Southwest…
May 3, 2023
UAMS Mindfulness Program to Offer Online Meditation Courses
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Mindfulness Program is offering online courses to the public during May and June that teach introductory skills for meditation and mindfulness.
May 2, 2023
UAMS Researchers Find Financial Burdens for Cancer Survivors Vary by Insurance Type
FAYETTEVILLE — Rural women cancer survivors are more likely to experience financial strain related to basic household needs rather than medical debt, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. The study, “It was kind of a nightmare, it really was:” Financial Toxicity Among Rural…
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Christi Madden, MPA, Named Executive Director of UAMS Translational Research Institute
LITTLE ROCK — Christi Madden, MPA, has joined the UAMS Translational Research Institute as its executive director. Madden, a leader with more than two decades of research programmatic management experience, spent most of her career in her home state of Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), where she worked in the…
UAMS Receives $12 Million from State Legislature to Support South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado
LITTLE ROCK — Members of the Arkansas General Assembly committed $12 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to support the new South Arkansas Regional Hospital (SARH) in El Dorado.
May 1, 2023
UAMS, NIH Study Finds Consoling, Other Techniques Better Than Drug Therapies for Newborns with Opioid Withdrawal
LITTLE ROCK — A groundbreaking nationwide clinical trial in which the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) played a key role has confirmed an effective way to wean newborns from opioid withdrawal symptoms that substantially reduces hospital stays and the traditional use of drug therapies. Using an “Eat, Sleep, Console” (ESC) care approach resulted…
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