UC San Diego researchers discover new role for epidermal growth factor receptor in blood stem cell development, a crucial key to being able to generate them in the laboratory
IN THE NEWS: In January, Abby Crain was transported to the Level I trauma center at UCI Medical Center after suffering multiple broken bones in a near-head on traffic collision. While surgeons set her bones and put her on the road to recovery, UCI Health neurosurgeon Dr. Li-Mei Lin was…
UCI Health has received a 10th consecutive “A” grade in The Leapfrog Group’s biannual Hospital Safety Grade, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections. The spring 2019 Hospital Safety Grade is compiled by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit patient safety watchdog organization, that assessed patient…
UCI Health is now offering a non-surgical treatment for men with prostate enlargement. Prostate artery embolization (PAE) is a minimally-invasive outpatient procedure to treat men with benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH. Since becoming available in Europe and Brazil, the procedure has rapidly gained popularity in the U.S. since FDA approval…
UCI Health has recognized 12 nurses and two friends of nursing for excellence as part of National Nurses Week. The medical center annually honors nurses and holds events such as the Nursing Exemplar Awards Ceremony to highlight their work and achievements during the past year. “I am indebted to the…
The public is invited to learn more about men’s health and urology, executive health, sleep medicine and behavioral health services offered at the state-of-art UCI Health medical facility opened last year in Newport Beach. The free one-hour lecture will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, May 20, at the Newport…
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