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…
IN THE NEWS: Hair loss can be devastating to a person’s mental health and treating it can be shockingly expensive. For example, a high-quality wig can cost upward of $1,500. California Assembly Bill 2668, which recently stalled, would have required insurers to cover up to $750 per wig for patients…
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…
Donald M. Bers, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, received an Honorary Fellowship from The Physiological Society, the group's highest honor presented to an individual.
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized medical imaging. Here are four ways that AI is changing medicine in pictures - and the UCSF minds behind them.
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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