By analyzing the hundreds of metabolic products present in the liver, researchers with the UC Irvine Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism have discovered that circadian rhythms—our own body clock—greatly control the production of such key building blocks as amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids. They identified more than 600 liver-originated metabolites…
Two-time cancer survivor Billy Pine is proud to say that he has almost never missed his half-mile daily swim since he began a rigorous six-month course of chemotherapy for colon cancer almost 12 years ago at UC Irvine Medical Center. Now 70, the retired recording industry executive, who also beat…
Binh Phan celebrated the wedding of her dreams and now the 25-year-old and her husband are buying their first home. Confident that she has beaten back an aggressive breast cancer tumor that nearly claimed her life four years earlier, she now is contemplating college and a family. In the summer…
In three short years, high-energy entrepreneur Angelo Giuliano, 31, has built his mobile electronic billboard business into a thriving enterprise with a lock on every major Southern California entertainment venue and staking out new turf in New York. It almost didn’t happen but for his friendship with a UC Irvine…
UC Irvine researchers have discovered how salmonella, a bacterium found in contaminated raw foods that causes major gastrointestinal distress in humans, thrives in the digestive tract despite the immune system’s best efforts to destroy it. Their findings help explain why salmonella is difficult to eradicate and point to new approaches…
IN THE NEWS: Nathan Wong, PhD, director of UC Irvine’s Heart Disease Prevention Program, criticized a recent editorial in a letter to the Orange County Register (fifth item): The recent Register editorial “California hooked on tobacco taxes” [Feb. 22] missed the mark on Proposition 29. Prop. 29 is a responsible…
Not sure when to get a colonoscopy? Will it hurt? March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and it’s a good time to talk to your primary care doctor about these questions and more, says Dr. Michael J. Stamos, chairman of UC Irvine’s Department of Surgery and president of the…
IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register took note of the memorial Dr. Marianne Cinat’s family, friends and colleagues held at UC Irvine Medical Center last week: UC Irvine has honored the memory of Dr. Marianne Cinat—the prominent Orange County burn-injury surgeon found dead in her backyard pool in June—by…
IN THE NEWS: In the first of two parts, Orange County Register columnist Jane Glenn Haas discusses aging with Dr. Laura Mosqueda, chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Family Medicine and director of the geriatrics program: We know that life spans are lengthening and more people are living longer. But…
The local doctors who sent Joe Alfaro by ambulance to UC Irvine Medical Center said he needed to see "the pros, the specialists" who would know what to make of the mysterious mass visible on a scan of his pancreas. Only a few days earlier, Alfaro and his construction crew…
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