June 25, 2014
Jonesboro Family Medical Center at UAMS Northeast Earns Highest Patient-Centered Status
LITTLE ROCK — The Jonesboro Family Medical Center at UAMS Northeast has earned national recognition as a Level III patient-centered medical home, where health professionals work as a team to address patients’ immediate and long-term medical needs.
June 2, 2014
Joseph Bates Honored by Arkansas Medical Society
Joseph Bates,M.D., professor of epidemiology and associate dean for public health practice in the UAMS College of Public Health, was recently awarded the Asklepion Award by the Arkansas Medical Society for his contributions to health care in Arkansas.
June 1, 2014
Cord Blood Transplant Gives 18-Month-Old New Lease on Life
The weeks surrounding Valentine’s Day 2008 were heart-wrenching for Brian and Jennifer Odle. But because of an innovative use of cord blood and a strong-willed 18-month-old baby girl, the family’s memories of that winter soon evolved into a heartwarming affair. During a family fishing trip to their retreat on the Little Red River that February, the…
May 23, 2014
Survivors Hurl Strikes Against Stroke
If a Dustin Martinez baseball card existed, it would have two noteworthy statistics on the back — first ceremonial strike thrown at Strike Out Stroke Night at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock and 500th stroke patient to receive a blood-clot dissolving agent through the UAMS-led AR SAVES program.
May 20, 2014
Full Circle: UAMS Doctor Finds Peace After a Two-Time Battle with Rare Form of Leukemia
Tired, worn down and fighting off the routine rigors of an intense meh2residency program, Samantha McKelvey, M.D., was too focused on the many tasks at hand to pay much mind to her own physical well-being.
May 17, 2014
UAMS Helps College Student Donate Kidney to Mena Man
Twenty-one-year-old Alissa Pitcher of Grand Rapids, Mich., was moved last spring by a Mena, Arkansas, mother’s plea on behalf of her son. The request for prayers came via e-mail from an old family friend, Tammy Hamelink, whose 23-year-old son, Kryn, was in desperate need of a kidney transplant. As Alissa’s mother read Tammy’s e-mail aloud,…
May 13, 2014
Angel Eye Adds 35 More Cameras to Pennsylvania Hospital’s Neonatal Unit
Angel Eye Camera Systems, a company established in 2013 with support from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures, recently completed the installation of 35 additional camera systems in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Children’s Hospital at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. This will make Lehigh Valley Hospital the first regional hospital in the area to have every bed in their NICU with live streaming cameras.
May 12, 2014
Drug Trial for Castleman’s Gets Amazing Results
Carl Guenther was once told he had two years left to live. But a new drug treatment study led by UAMS has stretched that once-grim allotment into nine years and counting.
May 6, 2014
Frequent Flier
The walk from Greg Pacheco’s front door to his car is not a long one. But in 2003, the 30-year-old could barely muster enough energy to take those few steps. Today, the California native is walking, driving and traveling halfway across the country thanks to a new therapy offered at UAMS. “I still have Castleman’s…
April 23, 2014
South Central Telehealth Forum to be Held May 9
LITTLE ROCK — The second annual telehealth conference for the Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee region to promote the use of telecommunications technologies to support distance health care will be May 9 at the Statehouse Convention Center.
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