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Printer Friendly Version Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 @08:15am CST An event is planned next month to launch a new volunteer advocacy group at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

Despite sharp declines in foundation assets and individual worth, the charitable giving scene in Arkansas has had its high points.

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Main Category: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Radiology / Nuclear Medicine A non-absorbed, oral co-polymer therapy under development by Midway Pharmaceuticals demonstrated the ability to protect against damage to healthy gastrointestinal tissues and to prevent lethal bacterial infections in animal models of ...

SPRINGHOUSE, PA : A non-absorbed, oral co-polymer therapy under development by Midway Pharmaceuticals demonstrated the ability to protect against damage to healthy gastrointestinal tissues and to prevent lethal bacterial infections in animal models of radiation damage.

Their finding, published Nov. 15 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, might ultimately stop cancer's deadly metastasis and improve early diagnosis of the disease in its various forms.

The chancellor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences says the medical school and hospital is considering budget cuts that could include layoffs.

Allen Barefield used to live life in six-month increments because he didn't think he'd survive with the virus that causes AIDS.

Conway police have identified a pedestrian struck by a train Thursday night in Conway as Marco Antonio Hernandez of 1900 Dave Ward Drive.

Deborah Lyons Langford had a bad feeling, a really bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.

New findings about alcohol's effects on the brain and potential drug treatments that prevent damage to brain cells has led to three federal grants totaling $3.1 million for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announces the publication of the "Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques" by V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director of the Breast Cancer Program at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.

Lawrence Schmieding, 89, died Monday following a two-year battle with cancer. a oeThis is a bittersweet moment for us, but it is also quite a tribute to him,a said Hope Hartz Fredrich, the centera s director of education.

The study will be the largest of its kind undertaken in the United States. It will study 100,000 children from conception until 21 years of age, Dr.

An experimental drug that mimics the effect of steroids, such as testosterone, without many of the harmful side effects is freely available online, according to new research.

A team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has found a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream that could dramatically improve earlier cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

Kimberly Reynolds, a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences graduate student in biochemistry and microbiology, and Kevin Raney, professor of biochemistry, talk about the results of a mass spectrometer Friday at the Arkansas Biosciences Institute.

Prospects for many patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells, have changed dramatically since the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy was established in 1989 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences .

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.