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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…
December 11, 2017
Hearts2Soles Provides Free Foot Exam, Shoes to Local Homeless
Dec. 11, 2017 | Her youngest daughter, Cheyenne, covets new shoes like most 10-year-old children; her oldest child, 13-year-old Sequoia, continues to hit growth spurts every few months making new shoes a necessity; and she, 35-year-old Virginia Duck, has worn through the soles from her current pair of shoes. Those circumstances made the annual Hearts2Soles…
December 8, 2017
12th Street Center Students, Faculty, Volunteers Observe World AIDS Day
Dec. 8, 2017 | For the fourth consecutive year, the UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center observed World AIDS Day, and it has made the fight against AIDS an even more integral part of its health services by offering quarterly screenings for HIV. At the Nov. 30 event, the center again offered free HIV…
UAMS’ C. Lowry Barnes: Trinidad Trip ‘Very Rewarding’
Dec. 8 2017 | The procedure itself was nothing out of the ordinary for a seasoned orthopaedic surgeon like C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., but the response he received from the patient will always be a special memory for him. In the middle of a medical mission trip to Trinidad, Barnes had just helped a middle-aged…
December 7, 2017
UAMS’ Jay L. Mehta, M.D., Ph.D., Named to Forbes’ Physician Honor Roll
Dec. 7, 2017 | UAMS’ Jay (Jawahar) L. Mehta, M.D., Ph.D., is one of 27 cardiologists across the country being recognized by Forbes as an exemplary physician in the field of cardiology. Many individuals on the list have served in the top spots of multiple hospitals and contribute a wealth of clinical research to advance the…
December 6, 2017
Three Arkansans to be Honored in 2018 Rose Parade
Dec. 6, 2017 | Thirty-eight-year-old Melissa Owen of Little Rock died on Christmas Eve 2014 after suffering a brain aneurysm and a stroke. Two days later – just one day after being placed on the transplant list — Yolanda Harshaw, also of Little Rock, received a call that the heart she needed for a life-saving…
December 1, 2017
UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Accepting Applications for Summer Health Careers Program
Dec. 1, 2017 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus is now accepting applications from students who will be entering the 11th or 12th grade and interested in exploring careers in health care for its two-week, intensive Medical Applications of Science for Health (MASH) programs. The Rogers area program is…
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