August 6, 2018

UAMS Symposium Shows How Technology Bolsters Learning

News Staff

Teaching with Technology participants look on as Kevin D. Phelan, Ph.D., co-director of the Division of Clinical Anatomy, shows off the division's new Sectra Table.

He hasn’t overhauled his teaching methods or reinvented the wheel, but Jerad Gardner’s lectures, insight and expertise are reaching well beyond the confines most teachers educate within.


August 3, 2018

Fort Smith Man Regains Vision After Nearly Two Years in the Dark

Katrina Dupins

Katie Brown, O.D. examines Mack Farris' eye.

Aug. 3, 2018 | For the past few months, Mack and Karen Farris have spent lots of quality time taking in sights. The Fort Smith couple has enjoyed sunsets on the beach, trips back to their hometown in Alabama, visiting friends and family in Mississippi and Georgia and boating with dolphins in Florida It is…


August 2, 2018

Have Medicare? You May Qualify for Assistance in Affording Medications and Medicare Part B Premiums

Ben Boulden

Aug. 2, 2018 | If you have Medicare and are income qualified, you may be eligible for programs that could save you money on your Medicare premiums and drug costs. On-site application assistance for those who qualify for these benefits will be available from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Center on Aging-Northeast at…


Hat Club of Little Rock Lifts UAMS Neonatal Program with $30,000 Gift

Benjamin Waldrum

Close to two dozen Hat Club members collectively presented a check July 13 to UAMS Consortium board members.

Aug. 2, 2018 | Flush with young professionals and new fathers, members of the Hat Club of Little Rock recently presented a $30,000 check to benefit the UAMS neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Close to two dozen of the club’s members collectively presented a check July 13 to UAMS Consortium board members Daniel Beck, Mitsy…


July 19, 2018

UAMS Awarded $450,000 Telemedicine Grant to Serve Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors

Ben Boulden

July 19, 2018 | A new telemedicine program to provide care and services to traumatic brain injury survivors recently received funding through a $450,000 federal grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded the three-year grant for The Traumatic Brain…


July 18, 2018

Researcher Aims to Improve Mobile Tools for Mental Health

News Staff

Researcher and research assistant with phone

July 18, 2018 | A UAMS researcher is exploring ways coaching and other additions might improve a suite of apps that aims to help patients with depression and anxiety. “Whether it’s time, money, geography or stereotypes, we know there are many roadblocks to people having access to therapy, and anxiety and depression can have a…


July 16, 2018

UAMS Stroke Care Ensures Patient Can Tell His Story

Ben Boulden

During a follow-up visit, Rodney Morrison tests the strength of his grip with Martin Radvany, M.D. Radvany treated Morrison for stroke in March.

July 16, 2018 | Rodney Morrison of Hot Springs has a story to tell, and if it wasn’t for the part UAMS played in it, he might not have been able to tell it. UAMS recently became the first and only health care provider in Arkansas to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by…


July 12, 2018

Fungal Infections

Tim Taylor

These programs were first broadcast the week of July 16, 2018.


July 10, 2018

Little Rock Musician: Surgery ‘Changed My Whole Life’

Katrina Dupins

Paul Campbell

July 10, 2018 | As a musician, 37-year-old Paul Campbell generally keeps a busy schedule. If he’s not playing live music with a band, he’s producing in a studio, instructing students as an adjunct professor at Arkansas Baptist College or serving as a career coach at the University of Arkansas Pulaski Tech. Campbell even took…


July 3, 2018

UAMS Telemedicine Program in Magazine School District Reduces Obesity

Ben Boulden

Students in the Magazine School District play during HealthyNow field Day.

July 3, 2018 | More than half of obese fifth through eighth graders in the Magazine School District reduced their obesity in the last year after participating in a program by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health. The program is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program…


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