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News News Health Care Supply Chain Immature and Expensive Due to Lack of Data Standardization, Study Shows FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A comprehensive survey conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas reveals that the American health care supply chain is an immature and expensive system with significant barriers to efficiency. Specifically, stakeholders – manufacturers, distributors, group purchasing organizations and providers such as hospitals, surgical centers and long-term care facilities – lack good and accurate information because they have not implemented universal standards for data, despite a recent movement in this direction. Release Date: 10/14/2009 Researcher Discovers New, Better Method of Treatment for Superficial Bladder Cancer FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A biomedical researcher at the University of Arkansas and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute have discovered a superior method for treating superficial bladder cancer, which leads to muscle-invasive and then metastatic bladder cancer, the fifth most common form of cancer in the United States. David Zaharoff, assistant professor in the department of biological and agricultural engineering, combined Interleukin-12 (IL-12), a powerful cytokine, which is a type of protein, with chitosan, a biocompatible and adhesive polysaccharide, to successfully cure mice with bladder tumors. Release Date: 9/10/2009 Arkansas Receives $3.3 Million Grant From National Science Foundation FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas scientists, students and information-technology workers will benefit from a new $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The award, made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will enable researchers at the University of Arkansas and other colleges and universities in the state to build and support cyberinfrastructure and to train students and workers in information-technology systems, tools and services. Release Date: 9/3/2009 Researchers Use Golden Nanotubes for Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Node FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes. The new material could be used as a more efficient and less toxic alternative to nanoparticles and fluorescent labels used in the non-invasive, targeted molecular detection of normal cells, such as immune-related cells, and abnormal cells, such as cancer cells and bacteria. Findings were published Sunday in Nature Nanotechnology. Release Date: 8/28/2009 Operations Management Graduate Program Celebrates 35th Anniversary FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The College of Engineering’s operations management graduate program is celebrating its 35th year of educating students in Arkansas and around the world. Release Date: 8/19/2009 Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. and the University of Arkansas Win Prestigious R&D 100 Award R&D Magazine announced today that Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (APEI) and the University of Arkansas (National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission) are a recipient of the 2009 R&D 100 Award for their high-temperature silicon carbide power module. Release Date: 7/21/2009 AHRMM and the University of Arkansas to Release Findings of the Cost and Quality in Healthcare Logistics Survey at AHRMM09 The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) and the Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics (CIHL) at the University of Arkansas conducted an online survey of healthcare supply chain professionals to assess the current state of the healthcare supply chain from a cost and quality perspective in December ’08 and January ‘09.  The report findings will be released at the AHRMM09 Conference and Exhibition in July. Release Date: 7/8/2009 News Archive 2009 News Archive 2008 News Archive 2007 News Archive 2006 News Archive 2005 News Archive