University of Arkansas Medical Sciences News

More than 800 volunteers have registered to work at a free health-care clinic Saturday, November 21, in downtown Little Rock that will provide medical treatment for uninsured Arkansans, ages 6 to 65.

Pay raises for more than 3,300 employees at the UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock are being canceled or rescinded.

A wage freeze - retroactive for some employees - that will save about $3 million a year was announced Tuesday for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center in Little Rock.

His new job: Christopher B. Stevens joined UNT Health, the physician group affiliated with the University of North Texas Health Science Center, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to see patients at the Lake Worth office.

ISLAMABAD: Most women who have a heart attack have experienced telltale symptoms, such as extreme fatigue and sleep disturbance, during the weeks leading up to the attack, investigators report.

It is central to decision-making and leadership,a said a quote by J. Rosenthal on the lecturea s first PowerPoint slide-show. In the field of nursing, leadership and ethics work hand-in- hand to successfully create prominent medical leaders.

Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing.

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have received a five-year, $19.5 million grant to study treatments for multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells.

If anything to be said about the H1N1, it is that there is still a great deal of misinformation spreading about the virus.

UAMS Mammogram Campaign to Focus on Women with Disabili... Printer Friendly Version Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 @10:00am CDT Abnormally high rates of breast cancer among women with disabilities have led the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas Disability & Health Program at Partners for Inclusive Communities to begin a public ...

Brian D. Gushulak, William B. Baine, Shukal Bala, Paul O. Gubbins, Paul Holtom, and Marisel Segarra-Newnham Author affiliations: Migration Health Consultants Inc., Cheltenham, Ontario, Canada ; McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ; Migration Health Consultants Inc., Singapore ; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is reporting an increase in the number of first-year medical students.

Arkansasa only medical school is among 12 nationwide that saw a jump in first-year enrollment this year as medical schools across the country seek to expand their rolls and soften the blow of widespread physician shortages, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Arkansas Business' annual lists of the highest paid state employees have traditionally been dominated by "jocks and docs" - Razorbacks football and basketball coaches and the physicians on staff at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

The groundbreaking KIDS FIRST program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has earned the highest level of accreditation awarded through an internationally recognized accrediting body.

If Paula Anderson had more time and energy to devote to something other than practicing medicine, she'd work to get insurance coverage for a particular group of her patients: adults with cystic fibrosis.

Kris Shewmake was named the best plastic surgeon in Arkansas by his colleagues in 1999.

Obese patients treated in office-based medical practices were twice as likely as normal-weight patients to develop conditions associated with heart disease, a new study has found.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is hosting an AARP-sponsored defensive driving class October 10 at its Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.

When Dr. Dan Rahn takes over as chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Nov.