UCI Health is continuing to expand the reach of academic medicine in Orange County with new specialty care offices now open in Tustin. This site offers patients access to world-class clinical services, right in their own community. “We are very excited to bring the expertise we’re known for as a…
Michael Moeller had suffered for 10 months with debilitating diarrhea. Finally, after only one dose and one day, he knew he was over it. The treatment was not a new or stronger or different combination of antibiotics, but a fecal microbiota transplant, or FMT, which involves placing the stool of…
IN THE NEWS: Some of the conventional “wisdom” regarding our health may or may not be true after all. UCI Health ophthalmologist Dr. Wade Crow was one of the experts consulted by The Orange County Register for an article that separates fact from fiction. Is it true that reading in…
IN THE NEWS: There's no "magic pill" that prevents colon cancer, but Dr. William Karnes has plans to reduce the incidence of the disease in Orange County by 90 percent. Getting there requires the active participation of patients, the UCI Health gastroenterologist recently told an audience at the Newport Beach…
A newly developed website provides parents and children with individualized information and support — based on factors like coping style and levels of worry and fear — to help lower anxiety before outpatient surgery in children, according to a pair of articles in the April issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia…
A pouch-like structure inside the heart’s left atrial chamber in some people may explain strokes that otherwise lack an identifiable cause, according to UC Irvine School of Medicine researchers. Dr. Mark Fisher, a professor of neurology and pathology & laboratory medicine, and colleagues evaluated 75 stroke patients at UC Irvine…
IN THE NEWS: Leslie Randall, MD, assistant professor of gynecological cancer, appeared on the KCRW program Press Play with Madeline Brand to discuss ovarian cancer treatment options. Angelina Jolie-Pitt’s recent surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes highlights the difficult decisions faced by high-risk women. “Ovarian cancer is just…
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