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Burn survivors gather for annual picnic

UCI Health — July 16, 2011

IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register attended the July 14 burn survivors picnic, held annually by the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center at the medical center in Orange. View photos from the event ›

Stem cells can restore brain function

UCI Health — July 13, 2011

IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register reported in a UC Irvine study that showed brain cancer patients who lose some of their smarts because of radiation treatments could regain them with injections of human neural stem cells. “The real appeal is to put these cells into the brain in…

Hundreds attend burn survivors picnic

UCI Health — July 13, 2011

Each summer, the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center holds a picnic for burn survivors. Hundreds of former patients and their families attended this year’s picnic at the UC Irvine Medical Center on July 14. The burn center annually treats more than half of Orange County’s burn injuries, including the most…

UC Irvine doctors receive Center for Health Quality & Innovation grants

UCI Health — July 10, 2011

UCI Health physicians are among the recipients of the University of California Center for Health Quality & Innovation’s inaugural round of grants. Critical care specialist Dr. Elizabeth Turner was awarded $50,000 to—along with Dr. Chris Fox and Dr. Mark Rosen—implement an educational program on the bedside use of handheld ultrasound…

UC Irvine recruiting subjects for study on preterm birth among first-time mothers

UCI Health — June 29, 2011

UCI Health is recruiting pregnant women to participate in a research study on the reasons for premature birth. "It’s critical to examine the causes of preterm birth in women who have never carried a pregnancy to term,” says Dr. Deborah A. Wing, professor and director of maternal-fetal medicine in UC…

Study shows long-term benefits of mammography

UCI Health — June 27, 2011

N THE NEWS: Dr. Stephen Feig discussed the findings of a new study of the long-term benefits of mammography with the Orange County Register. The Swedish study, which was posted online Tuesday at the journal Radiology, reviewed breast screening results over nearly 30 years. This is critical, because breast cancer…

UC Irvine and French researchers find master switch for adult epilepsy

UCI Health — June 26, 2011

UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy affects 1 to 2 percent of the world's population, and TLE is the most common form of…

Bridging a Cultural Divide

UCI Health — June 20, 2011

IN THE NEWS: Dr. Charles Vega discusses the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s PRIME-LC program with the online Voice of Orange County. Vega talks about how the program trains young doctors to better serve underrepresented communities. Read the full article ›

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