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 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…
Preparations are under way for UC Irvine’s Burn Survivor’s Holiday Party on Dec. 13. The staff of UC Irvine Regional Burn Center expects several hundred current and former patients and their families to attend the annual party, which will feature music, dinner, arts and crafts for children and a visit…
IN THE NEWS: An Orange County Register article examined the recent changes to recommended prostate screening guidelines: While some Orange County doctors, along with the American Urological Association, don’t agree with scrapping the PSA test altogether, they support more discussion with patients before automatically checking the PSA box on a…
Post-menopausal women with a certain type of metastatic breast cancer may have a new treatment option that could lengthen their lives, according a study led by UC Irvine oncologist Rita Mehta, MD. The findings were presented today at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The combination of the…
After a thorough review, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has recognized the UCI Health multiple sclerosis program for superior and innovative patient care by certifying it as an official Center for MS Comprehensive Care. The Multiple Sclerosis Program, which is based on the Irvine campus in the Gottschalk Medical Plaza…
For years, doctors doubted the existence of “chemo brain,” a condition in which many cancer patients described a loss of memory and mental function after undergoing chemotherapy. A study published this week in Archives of Neurology lends evidence to the existence of chemo brain. Volunteers took a series of tests…
IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register’s iPad edition featured UC Irvine’s iMedEd initiative in its Nov. 9 download: UC Irvine is moving toward focused, small group sessions with students and podcasted lectures, said Dr. Warren Wiechmann, director of instructional technologies. “There’s been a shift among medical educators in the…
Are cancer patients between the ages of 15 and 39 years old getting the best care possible? Dr. Leonard Sender doesn’t think so. The director of the adolescent and young adult cancer program at UC Irvine’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center tells the November edition of Clinical Oncology News that…
IN THE NEWS: Almost 12.5 million children in the United States between 2 and 19 are obese. These rates of have almost tripled from just one generation ago. Dr. Dan Cooper, chairman of the UC Irvine’s pediatrics department, says the focus should be on providing kids in school with healthy…
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