As your children head back to school, there’s more to think about than math tests, spelling bees and homework. Protecting your family from the many common illnesses that make the rounds each year should also be a consideration. Dr. Shruti Gohil, a UCI Health infectious disease specialist, answers questions about…
When Newport Beach resident Sue Stern was diagnosed with a rare spinal cord tumor in 2008, she and her husband Ralph sought out the finest neurosurgeons in the region for treatment options. Their search ended when they met Dr. Mark Linskey and the UCI Health cancer team. Linskey successfully removed…
Imagine learning you’re pregnant, then being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few weeks later. That was the predicament 36-year-old Karalayne Maglinte found herself in not too long ago. The Pomona resident’s first inkling of trouble began when she was 15 weeks pregnant. “My hands and feet were so itchy I…
Patients who underwent weight loss operations in recent years, when most bariatric surgical centers were accredited, had fewer postoperative complications and were 2.3 times less likely to die in the hospital than patients who had bariatric procedures performed before a national movement toward facility accreditation occurred, according to a study…
IN THE NEWS: Dr. Neal Hermanowicz, clinical professor of neurology and director of the UCI Health Movement Disorders Program, appears tonight on the PBS program “Studio SoCal.” In light of news that Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, Hermanowicz will discuss the disease’s impact on patients…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved bevacizumab, also known as Avastin, to treat persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer. The approval is based on a clinical trial led by UCI Health gynecologic oncologist Dr. Krishnansu S. Tewari and conducted by the Gynecological Oncology Group, now known as NRG…
IN THE NEWS: Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh and his research about the "obesity paradox" were profiled in the Easy Reader News: Recent findings by Kalantar-Zadeh and some of his colleagues have landed him square in the middle of an “obesity paradox,” which is the subject of sometimes heated debate among physicians…
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