IN THE NEWS: UCI Health infectious disease expert Shruti Gohil, MD, spoke to the Orange County Register about the flu vaccination in an article about the flu complications that led to death of a local woman. It’s an unusually vicious season – a period of time that typically peaks between…
IN THE NEWS: USA Today spoke with UCI Health disaster medicine expert Carl Schultz, MD, about the affect the numerous natural disasters and human-caused crises had on the nation’s hospitals: America’s hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017… Across the country, natural disasters have become more…
Josephine Herbert Gleis, a longtime friend of UCI, has passed away at the age of 105. Her generous gifts to the university changed lives in the arts, neurology, and perhaps most significantly, vision health and research. In 2007, Mrs. Gleis and her son, Allergan founder Gavin Herbert, made the initial…
IN THE NEWS: Nathan Wong, PhD, professor of medicine and director of the UCI Health Heart Disease Prevention Program, discusses heart health and managing diabetes with EverydayHealth.com: [E]veryone needs to get physical activity — and it’s even more important when you have diabetes, which can also affect your heart. “What’s…
Ninety UCI Health physician are listed among the Best Doctors in America® for 2017-2018, an honor given to just 5 percent of U.S. doctors in a national survey of their peers. UCI Health has more physicians trusted by other doctors than any other medical group in Orange County and the…
UCI Medical Center has earned recognition as a Baby-Friendly Designated birth facility from Baby-Friendly USA, Inc. and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. This global program is sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level…
The 2018 "Physicians of Excellence" list in the January 2018 edition of Orange Coast magazine contains 150 UCI Health physicians, more than that of any other health system in Orange County. The recognition is bestowed by the Orange County Medical Association, a voluntary physician organization that exists to promote the…
High-protein diets may lead to long-term kidney damage among those suffering from chronic kidney disease, according to UCI Health nephrologist Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH. In a review article titled "Nutritional Management of Chronic Kidney Disease” published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Kalantar-Zadeh and co-author Denis Fouque…
In the News: Can you get the herpes virus by trying on a lipstick sample? Yes, but it's highly unlikely, UCI Health dermatologist Dr. Janellen Smith tells the Huffington Post. Asked about a report that a woman who is suing a cosmetics retailer claims to have contracted herpes from one…
Jamila Jackson thought she would never have children. In her early 30s, the mortgage underwriter from Diamond Bar developed uterine fibroids — a type of benign tumor that grows in the muscles of the uterus. To treat them she underwent uterine artery embolization, which reduces blood flow to the uterus…
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