Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have identified a key neural pathway in humans that explains how the brain processes feelings of fear and anxiety, a finding that could help scientists unlock new ways to treat mental health disorders. People are motivated to remember fearful events, because this information…
The American Cancer Society has renewed its Institutional Research Grant award to the UCI Cancer Research Institute to fund cancer research and support the development of new investigators in basic sciences and clinical cancer-related problems. The $360,000 award will be distributed over three years to fund direct research costs for…
UCI Health has established the first program in Orange County dedicated to specialized, coordinated care for gender-expansive children and transgender youth. The clinic, located at UCI Medical Center in Orange, is open to patients ages 3 to 21 and offers a range of services to support children or adolescents and…
Longtime UC Irvine donors Joe and Laura Alfieri have created the first-ever geriatric medicine fellowship fund for the UCI Health SeniorHealth Center. The endowment by the Anaheim Hills couple, which will support two geriatric medicine fellows, is intended to encourage more physicians who want to specialize in caring for Orange…
More than 150 UCI Health physicians have been named as “Physicians of Excellence” in the January 2017 edition of Orange Coast magazine. The recognition is bestowed by the Orange County Medical Association, a voluntary physician organization that exists to promote the art and science of medicine, the protection of public…
With the support of a major National Institutes of Health initiative, UC Irvine pediatric researchers will lead an effort to study molecular changes that occur in the body in response to exercise training in order to advance understanding of how physical activity improves and preserves health in children. Shlomit Radom-Aizik…
Veteran university fundraiser J. Christopher Smith joins UCI Health Advancement as associate vice chancellor, effective Dec. 5. In this strategic role, Smith will work with volunteers, alumni, friends, grateful families, corporations and foundations, connecting them to passions that serve the UCI Health mission: Discover. Teach. Heal. Smith also will partner…
IN THE NEWS: UCI Health psychiatrist Dr. Jody Rawles tells Billboard magazine that a longer hospital stay may be needed for people like entertainer Kanye West, whose physician ordered him hospitalized on Nov. 21 for exhaustion, dehydration and sleep deprivation. Rawles, vice chair of clinical affairs for the Department of…
UCI Health invites patients, caregivers and interested members of the public to attend a free special event, Parkinson’s Disease Symposium 2016: Current and Future Developments from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Dec. 3, 2016 at the UC Irvine campus. “We encourage the attendance of anyone in the community interested…
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