Orange, Calif. — The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is the first National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in California to offer a novel technology using highly focused sound waves to precisely destroy liver tumors in a single outpatient procedure. On Sept. 10, Dr. Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh and her…
The cancer center joined Peach Tree Health clinics to examine cervical cancer rates in underserved women and study whether HPV testing and vaccines can help.
Orange, Calif. — A new post-brain surgery wound care protocol significantly reduced the risk of surgical infection and improved the appearance of the incision, a study led by UCI Health researchers has found. A multidisciplinary team consisting of neurosurgeons, neurosurgical nurse specialists, wound care specialists, and infection prevention experts developed…
UCSF Health is opening retail pharmacies at its Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses. The new pharmacies build on UCSF Health’s history of innovative clinical pharmacy care and are integrated with health records to provide seamless care for UCSF patients and convenience for people who live and work in San Francisco.
Orange, Calif. — UC Irvine emergency medicine expert Dr. Federico Vaca, one of the nation’s leading researchers on motor vehicle crash injuries and prevention, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the potential of an age-based, early-alcohol-exposure risk assessment policy to reduce crash injuries…
The School of Medicine has implemented a business of medicine course so future doctors can become more familiar with the evolving health care industry.
On the second Sunday of October falls a lesser known, fun "holiday:" National Father-Daughter Day. We thought it was a great opportunity to check in with a father-daughter duo at UC Davis Health.
Orange, Calif. — UCI Health Dr. Sumit Garg is one of just 15 ophthalmologists and 50 healthcare professionals in the country to be named in the 2024 Healio Honors program, which recognizes clinicians who go above and beyond for their patients, as voted by their peers. The medical director of…
UC Davis Professor Manuel Navedo, an international thought leader and researcher on ion channels in the vasculature, is the 2025 recipient of The American Physiological Society’s Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lectureship.
The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and UC Davis School of Medicine are honored for outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion with the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award.
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