March 25, 2016
UAMS Student Pharmacists Named Best in the Nation
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 24, 2016
Nutrition
These programs were first broadcast the week of March 28, 2016.
March 18, 2016
Hot Springs Woman’s Hip Replacements Leave Behind Pain, Discomfort
March 18, 2016 | In the past six months, Vicki Brooks has undergone two hip replacements, but it’s hard to tell from her energetic walk and cheerful demeanor. If you ask Brooks, a Hot Springs resident, she praises her son, Brian, for her decision to visit UAMS when her hip pain became too much to…
March 17, 2016
Ten-year-old Donates Birthday Money to Cancer Institute
March 17, 2016 | Ten years ago, Lennon Tusieseina had just entered the world. Meanwhile, a team of doctors at UAMS was saving his grandfather’s life. Earlier this year, they saved his uncle, too. Lennon wanted to give something back. Toting a jar one-third his size stuffed with dollar bills, 10-year-old Lennon recently took his…
March 7, 2016
UAMS Center for Health Literacy Awarded $2.9 Million by National Institutes of Health
LITTLE ROCK — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Health Literacy has received a four-year grant of $2.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test the effectiveness of a diabetes education and health literacy program in patient-centered medical homes at UAMS regional centers across Arkansas. A patient-centered medical home…
March 4, 2016
Northwest Campus Shows Off Clinical Skills Center
March 4, 2016 | It was a negative encounter with doctors that made Betty Anderson decide to do something about it 21 years ago. Now she hopes more northwest Arkansas residents will join her to give UAMS students a chance to learn better clinical skills through simulated patient experiences. Anderson and two other standardized patients,…
March 2, 2016
Stroke Patient Feels ‘Wonderful’ After Clot Treatments
March 2, 2016 | It began like any other Sunday for the Lemasters of Sherwood. Mary Lemaster and her husband, James, had participated in the Sunday School class at Baring Cross Baptist Church on Feb. 7, 2016, and were getting ready to attend morning worship in the sanctuary when Mary went to the restroom. “It…
February 25, 2016
Symposium Gives Students Chance to Present Research
Feb. 25, 2016 | Students from the UAMS Graduate School presented their research Feb. 19 during the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Symposium, which was held in the BioMed buildings. Eighteen students competed in the poster presentation portion of the symposium while eight students were selected, based on their abstracts, to present oral presentations about their research…
February 22, 2016
Auxiliary’s Compassion Cards to Help Caregivers
Feb. 22, 2016 | Caregivers of patients in the hospital sometimes could use a little help themselves. So the UAMS Medical Center Auxiliary has begun raising money to provide caregivers in need with a $25 Compassion Card that they can use to buy food on the UAMS campus while their loved one is hospitalized. The…
February 16, 2016
UAMS Northwest Campus Hosts March 2 Open House to Recruit Standardized Patients for Clinical Skills Center
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Northwest Arkansas Campus in Fayetteville will host a March 2 open house for its clinical skills center, seeking people interested in helping students learn and strengthen clinical communication and physical exam skills. The open house for the Pat and Willard Walker Student Clinical Education…
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