Cancer

Arkansas Children’s Hospital has made record advancements, ranking among the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospital list, where it has the most service lines in which the state’s only pediatric health system has ever ranked. Seven of Arkansas Children’s…

Twelve graduate startup teams from across North America will soon compete in the third annual Heartland Challenge, a competition designed to simulate the process of raising venture capital for a high-growth enterprise. The Challenge will be hosted by the University…

A University of Arkansas student recently won first place and $10,000 in an international student startup competition hosted by the University of Manitoba. Locally-sourced ice cream company Simple + Sweet Creamery won top prize in the Undergraduate Business Plan Competition of the…

Danyelle Musselman has joined the Board of Directors of New Beginnings, a Northwest Arkansas nonprofit dedicated to providing shelter to the area’s homeless population. New Beginnings is a bridge housing community designed for unsheltered people who have experienced long-term homelessness…

Doctors at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently activated the first lung biopsy robot in Arkansas. The robot allows doctors to discover and biopsy previously undetectable cancerous nodules in the far reaches of the lungs. “This enables…

CARTI announced early Thursday that it has canceled this year’s Sugar Plum Ball due to the continued coronavirus pandemic.   CARTI is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary cancer care provider offering medical and surgical oncology, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology. With 19…

The CARTI Foundation recently announced the appointment of four new members to its Board of Directors: Misti Coker, Kelley Erstine, Grace Raja, M.D. and Cindy VanVeckhoven. With these appointments, the Foundation’s Board of Directors now includes 23 members. CARTI is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary cancer…

  The first UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center is now open on the Baptist Health Medical Center campus in North Little Rock, bringing cancer research, diagnostic and treatment services available at UAMS’ Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute to more Arkansans.…

CARTI on Tuesday announced the addition of five new physicians to its team. New cancer specialists joining CARTI are medical oncologist Andrew M. Briggler, M.D.; radiation oncologist Brent Cameron, M.D., Ph.D.; diagnostic radiologist Shivang Desai, M.D.; urologic surgical oncologist Matthew Katz, M.D.,…

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock announced Wednesday that Dr. K. Bao Vang-Dings, a research assistant professor at the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences at the school, has been named one of the nine 2021-2022 Public Policy Fellows with…