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My UCI Health now includes GPS-guided navigation for patients, visitors

UCI Health — June 17, 2020

UCI Health is pleased to announce a mobile wayfinding tool designed to make step-by-step navigation at UCI Medical Center simple for patients and visitors. UCI Health Find My Way, based on Connexient’s MediNav technology, is fully integrated into the health system’s My UCI Health app for Android- and iOS-based mobile…

Longitudinal Study of Brain Aging and Cognitive Change Receives $19 Million Grant

UC San Diego Health — June 15, 2020

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, will receive almost $19 million over five years for the fourth phase of the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging, which investigates cognition, aging and the risk for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

Putting 'Super' in Natural Killer Cells

UC San Diego Health — June 11, 2020

Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells — a type of immune cell — with measurably stronger activity against a form of leukemia, both in vivo and in vitro.

Media Statement Regarding White Coats 4 Black Lives Protests

UC San Diego Health — June 8, 2020

Recent events in Minnesota, Georgia and Kentucky — indeed across the country — are heartbreaking and outrageous. These unjustified assaults upon Black Americans, documented again and again in graphic images and video, are attacks upon all of us — and upon the human rights and...

Dr. Nasim Afsar named a leading Orange County woman in healthcare for 2020

UCI Health — June 1, 2020

IN THE NEWS: Dr. Nasim Afsar, chief operating officer for ambulatory care for UCI Health, is recognized as one of Orange County's leading women in healthcare by Coast Magazine and the Orange County Register. Afsar always knew that her life would be about providing health care to communities with the…

COVID-19 protective gear donations

UCI Health — May 31, 2020

IN THE NEWS: Orange County companies, residents, students, alumni and philanthropists rally around UCI Health to help shore up supplies for the COVID-19 outbreak. When national health authorities sent out the first alerts in January about the novel coronavirus spreading in Wuhan, China, UCI Health administrators launched into action. They…

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