UAMS Medical Center - Arkansas Hospital - Little Rock Hospital - UAMS Health

Welcome to UAMS

UAMS, the home of Arkansas' only teaching hospital, with clinics covering every medical specialty and a staff of more than 1,100 doctors, is committed to improving the health of Arkansans. Located in Little Rock, Arkansas, the newly expanded hospital and outpatient clinics include centers of excellence for medical research and treatment of cancer, eye, spine, aging, myeloma and psychiatric conditions. Our research and educational programs inspire new knowledge that results in better diagnosis and more advanced patient care.

	Aneurysm Patient Finds Most Advanced Treatment at UAMS Last year Lynda Etheridge was feeling fine and saw no need for a doctor-recommended brain scan to see if she had an aneurysm. Today she’s glad that her husband, Herb, convinced her to do it. Full Story

UAMS Cures Patient’s Incontinence, Prevents Need for Dialysis
Incontinence turned Laurene Payton’s life upside down for more than a year. Payton, of Hot Springs, learned that her improperly functioning bladder was causing urine to back into her kidneys, and without a solution she was facing kidney dialysis. Full Story

Making Innovative Steps in Alzheimer's Research
Not unlike a sugar-starved kid in a candy store, Dr. Sue Griffin's eyes light up as she flips through what seems to be an endless array of colorful slides of microscopic molecules. She's developed quite the relationship with these tiny molecules, and in the process her Alzheimer's research has put the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging on the international science map. Full Story

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