Shannon Dargenzio knew well what thyroid surgery usually entailed. When her mother’s cancerous gland was removed in the 1990s, she endured an extremely painful recovery that required months off work and left her with a scar at the base of her throat. Not surprisingly, Dargenzio was in no hurry to…
Dr. Dan Cooper believes that exercise can be the best medicine—so much so that he’s studying how specifically designed exercise programs for at-risk kids can help curb excessive weight gain, fight diseases and foster long-term fitness. With childhood obesity and asthma emerging as national health crises, Cooper in 2006 founded…
More than 90 UCI Health physicians have earned the distinction of being named Best Doctors in America® in the latest peer-reviewed list compiled by Best Doctors, Inc. The independent organization asked more than 50,000 physicians across the nation to identify the most skilled among their peers in more than 400…
IN THE NEWS: USA Today interviewed UC Irvine’s Dr. Laura Mosqueda for an article about the growing need for awareness of elder abuse and action to prevent it: The number of people who live to age 90 and beyond has tripled in the past three decades to 2 million and…
IN THE NEWS: The Los Angeles Times asked UC Irvine’s Dr. Madeleine Pahl to discuss kidney disorders in a report about health problems faced by Nick Cannon, the host of “America’s Got Talent.” Cannon and his wife, singer Mariah Carey, have been keeping fans informed about what she has called…
IN THE NEWS: Orange County’s first baby born in in 2012 was delivered at 1:52 a.m. New Year’s Day at UC Irvine Medical Center. According to the Orange County Register: Cadence Chen weighed in at 4 pounds, 2 ounces and was 17 inches long. Jane Chen delivered her naturally after…
IN THE NEWS: UC Irvine’s Dr. Matthew Butteri addressed the damage a pulmonary embolism could cause in a Los Angeles Times article about the autopsy report for rapper Heavy D. The rapper died last month of a blood clot to the lung that was likely formed during a long flight…
IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register examined the conventional wisdom surrounding holiday season weight gain: Conventional wisdom used to say that the average person gained 5-10 pounds starting with the first bite of Thanksgiving pumpkin pie and ending with the last Champagne toast on New Year’s. But research now…
UC Irvine surgical oncologist Dr. Mark E. Linskey, along with colleague Dr. Susan Chang from UC San Francisco, have led the first-ever course for brain tumor specialists on the basics of designing and running brain tumor clinical trials during November’s annual meeting of the Society of Neuro-Oncology in Orange County…
UC Irvine researchers have uncovered an important source of inflammation seen in people with chronic kidney disease, which is increasingly common due to the epidemic of obesity-related diabetes and hypertension. Dr. N.D. Vaziri, professor emeritus of medicine and physiology & biophysics, found that CKD causes massive depletion of the key…
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