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Binge drinking on the rise

UCI Health — December 12, 2024

IN THE NEWS: The number of deaths from excessive alcohol consumption in the U.S. rose 29% between 2016 and 2021, according to the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Charles Vega, a family medicine physician at UCI Health, writes in Medscape about formally screening patients for problem…

Gift will bolster diabetes care at UCI Health Family Health Centers

UCI Health — December 12, 2024

Orange, Calif. — A $50,000 gift to the UCI Health Family Health Centers in Santa Ana and Anaheim will enhance its efforts to support and educate individuals with diabetes. The gift from Hyundai Motor America will enable Orange County’s first and oldest Federally Qualified Health Center to convert an existing…

How This Cancer Drug Could Make Radiation a Slam Dunk Therapy

UCSF Health — December 9, 2024

UCSF scientists developed a way to deliver radiation just to cancerous cells, rather than attacking both cancerous and healthy tissue. The therapy combines a drug to mark the cancer cells for destruction and a radioactive antibody to kill them.

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