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December 13, 2016
UAMS to Offer Freedom From Smoking Program Starting Jan. 4
LITTLE ROCK — Make 2017 the year you quit smoking for good, with help from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The small-group Freedom from Smoking program will meet from 4-5:30 p.m. for seven Wednesdays beginning Jan. 4 in room 10104 on the 10th floor of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute….
12th Street Center Marks World AIDS Day with Screenings
Dec. 13, 2016 | Janay Tatum got some good news on Dec. 1 at the UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center: She’s healthy. “It was a good experience, and I had never been here before,” said Tatum, 27, of Wrightsville. “Everybody was nice, very friendly. My blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar were good….
December 9, 2016
High School Girls Learn Orthopaedic Surgical Techniques
Dec. 9, 2016 | Nearly 40 female high school students from across the state spent a Saturday at UAMS learning orthopaedic concepts like reconstructing knee ligaments and casting broken bones. The workshop was part of the Perry Outreach Program, designed to encourage young women to become orthopaedic surgeons and researchers. For six years, UAMS has…
December 8, 2016
Surgeons Use 3D Technology to Reconstruct Man’s Face
Dec. 8, 2016 | “When I reached up and felt the blood, I knew I’d hurt myself badly. But I had no idea my face had been crushed.” Sidney Todd III was at his job Jan.13, 2016, checking out oil wells in Union County. As he stepped up on a unit, he slipped on a…
December 5, 2016
UAMS Part of International Myeloma Genome Project
Dec. 5, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is collaborating with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Celgene Corp. to compile the largest set of high-quality genetic data related to myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the blood. Brian Walker, Ph.D., a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Internal…
UAMS Recognizes Community Partners at Celebration Dinner
Dec. 5, 2016 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute honored UAMS’ many Arkansas community partners Nov. 18 with its fourth annual Community Partner Celebration. During the event at the Centre at University Park in Little Rock, Naomi Cottoms, executive director of Tri County Rural Health Network (Tri County), accepted the first Chancellor’s Community Research Partner…
December 1, 2016
Liberian Travels to Arkansas to Thank Surgeon
Dec. 1, 2016 | Like most UAMS physicians, colorectal surgeon Jonathan Laryea, M.D., feels the responsibility to give back to the community. Unlike most UAMS physicians, his community includes the West African nation of Ghana where he grew up. For more than 20 years, Laryea, an associate professor for surgery in the UAMS College of…
November 30, 2016
New UAMS West Building Combines Local Ideas, Builders
Nov. 30, 2016 | Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West Regional Campus clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined. By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients…
November 29, 2016
June O’Keefe Named UAMS Cancer Institute Volunteer of the Year
Nov. 29, 2016 | For more than nine years, June O’Keefe has quietly made a difference in the lives of Arkansas’ cancer patients. Her efforts were recognized Nov. 17 when she was named Volunteer of the Year by the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary. “June is always upbeat, outgoing and has a wonderful…
November 21, 2016
UAMS, Arkansas Department of Education Partner to Implement $1.2 Million Grant for School Telemedicine
Nov. 21, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Department of Education are partnering to implement a $1.2 million pilot program that will provide telemedicine to students, educators and families in rural Arkansas communities. School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) is the first ever effort to bring telemedicine care to Arkansas’…
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