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January 8, 2018
UAMS to Offer 7-Week Freedom From Smoking Program Starting Jan. 23
LITTLE ROCK — Anyone ready to quit smoking is invited to participate in a free seven-week program sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The small-group Freedom from Smoking program will meet from 5-6:30 p.m. for seven Tuesdays starting Jan. 23 at 900 John Barrow Road. There is no cost to participate….
January 3, 2018
Briggs Trust Donates $436,000 for Schizophrenia Research at UAMS
Jan. 3, 2018 | A gift of $436,000 will allow the Psychiatric Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to fund additional research into schizophrenia, a serious mental disorder that can cause hallucinations, delusions and a loss of touch with reality. The donation from the Caroline T. Briggs Charitable Trust was…
December 28, 2017
UAMS Sees Changes in Patient Care, Education, Research in 2017
Dec. 28, 2017 | For UAMS, 2017 was a year of leadership changes and opening new buildings, of grants awarded for research and awards granted in recognition and praise. In late December that University of Arkansas System President Donald R. Bobbit will recommend to the UA Board of Trustees that Cam Patterson, M.D., be the…
December 20, 2017
Pharmacy Conference Keeps Pharmacists Up to Date
Dec. 20, 2017 | On a Sunday morning in a UAMS auditorium, John Kirtley, Pharm.D., engaged his audience in a brief call-and-response dialogue. “How many hydrocodone pills were dispensed in Arkansas last year?” Kirtley asked. Scattered voices called out guesses. Kirtley told them the total: It was 108 million, and another 49 million oxycodone pills…
December 19, 2017
Terry Angtuaco, M.D., Inducted as Inaugural Fellow to American Association for Women Radiologists
Dec. 19, 2017 | Terry Angtuaco, M.D., a professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Radiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was one of 18 inducted recently into the inaugural fellowship class of the American Association for Women Radiologists. The class was recognized at the 2017 Radiological Society of North America…
Study Shows Key Molecular Differences in Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia Could Lead to Better Treatment
LITTLE ROCK – A scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is among the lead authors of a study that could lead to more effective therapies for children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). UAMS’ Jason Farrar, M.D., and collaborators at eleven other institutions published their study in the journal Nature Medicine and…
December 18, 2017
UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Launches Pacific Islander Health Research Network, Earns Grant Funding
Dec. 18, 2017 | To ensure health research about Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders reaches those populations, the Center for Pacific Islander Health at the Northwest Regional Campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has launched the Pacific Islander Health Research Network. The network will disseminate results of studies and trials involving Native…
December 14, 2017
UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging Boasts Two Decades of Accomplishment
Dec. 14, 2017 | Unlike most 20 somethings who are starting careers and have relatively little yet they want to boast about, the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, which turned 20 this year, already can look back on a rich legacy of achievements. Like many things that grow, however, it started with a…
December 12, 2017
Dementia Update Educates Health Care Professionals, Caregivers
Dec. 12, 2017 | If nothing improves in dementia care in the next three decades, then by 2050 taking care of people with dementia will cost $1 trillion annually in the United States, a guest speaker warned Dec. 2 during the Dementia Update conference at UAMS. That speaker, Constantine Lyketsos, M.D., professor of psychiatry and…
UAMS Research Grants Surge 53 Percent to $170.6 Million in Fiscal Year 2017
Dec. 12, 2017 | Research funding at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) grew 53 percent during the last fiscal year, contributing to the Arkansas economy and bringing the potential to grow new businesses. From $111.6 million in fiscal year 2016 to $170.6 million in fiscal year 2017, which ended June 30, the…
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