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April 6, 2016
UAMS Food Recycling Project Creates Ecological Option for Unused Food, Waste
April 6, 2016 | Unused food and food waste from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) cafeteria is no longer destined for the landfill thanks to a food recycling program that creates an eco-friendly alternative. Since October, UAMS has donated 12 tons of food waste to Organix, a national food recycling organization that…
April 5, 2016
UAMS Names Renee Joiner Director of Arkansas SAVES Stroke Telemedicine Program
LITTLE ROCK — Renee Joiner has been named by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as director of the Arkansas Stroke Awareness and Virtual Emergency Support (AR SAVES) program. Joiner will oversee the operations of AR SAVES, which uses a high-speed video communications system to help provide immediate, life-saving treatments to stroke patients…
March 31, 2016
New CDC, UAMS Report Finds One in 83 Central Arkansas Children Has Autism Spectrum Disorder
March 31, 2016 | One in 83 central Arkansas children, or 1.2 percent, were identified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), according to a new report by the Arkansas Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (AR ADDM) Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The regional estimate is based on information collected from…
Jean McSweeney, Ph.D., R.N., Chairs Heart Association Statement on Ischemic Heart Disease Treatment in Women
March 31, 2016 | More research, superior diagnostic equipment and exceptional recognition of symptoms is needed to better identify and treat women with ischemic heart disease (IHD) according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association chaired by Jean McSweeney, Ph.D., R.N., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The statement was…
March 30, 2016
UAMS Researchers Help Uncover Possible Sex Determinant in Mammals
March 30, 2016 | A group of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) helped discover a new molecular “earmark” on DNA that may determine the sex of all mammals. The sex of human and all mammalian babies may be determined by a simple earmarking of an ancient virus that inserted itself…
March 29, 2016
UAMS 12th Street Center’s March Man-ness a Three-Peat Success
March 29, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center put teams of students and clinicians on the gymnasium floor March 19 as it scored its third annual March MAN-ness Health Event victory. More than 50 men and women circulated through rooms on each side of the…
March 28, 2016
UAMS Alumna: Nurses Have Important Role to Play in Research
March 28, 2016 | Nursing scientists have and will continue to play an important role in research and its impact on health care, a scientific director in the National Institute of Nursing Research told about 50 UAMS College of Nursing faculty, staff and students. Ann Cashion, Ph.D., R.N., a graduate of the college’s master’s degree…
March 25, 2016
UAMS Student Pharmacists Named Best in the Nation
March 25, 2016 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students proved themselves to be doubly good this year by earning recognition for the second year in a row as the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) National Chapter of the Year. APhA-ASP, as it did in 2015, presented the chapter with the honor at its…
March 24, 2016
Golf Tournament April 30 to Benefit UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center
LITTLE ROCK – The second annual golf tournament benefiting the 12th Street Health & Wellness Center of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will tee off April 30 at the Country Club of Arkansas in Maumelle. All net proceeds support the mission of the 12th Street Center. The tournament lunch will start at…
March 23, 2016
UAMS Researcher Advances Family Involvement With Critically Ill Child
March 23, 2016 | Family presence when a child is undergoing tracheal intubation in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can safely be implemented as part of a family-centered care model, reported a research team led by a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) professor in the March 7 issue of JAMA Pediatrics. …
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