Irvine, Calif. — Allergan founder Gavin Herbert and his wife, Ninetta, have pledged $5 million to advance retinal research at UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, the academic eye care center named in his honor. "As longtime champions of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, the Herberts have shown that community…
UCI Health policy researchers have been awarded $1.2 million by the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine to develop more effective ways for prostate cancer patients and their physicians to customize treatment. Sheldon Greenfield, MD, and Sherrie H. Kaplan, PhD, co-executive directors of UC Irvine’s Health Policy Research Institute, are…
Doctors at UCI Health are investigating an exciting new medication that uses a patient’s own immune system to attack leukemia cells. Led by Dr. Susan O’Brien, one of the nation’s foremost leukemia experts and medical director of The Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research, the…
UCI Health has received a fifth consecutive “A” in The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections. The fall 2016 Hospital Safety Grade is compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety. “UCI Health physicians, nurses…
Irvine, Calif. — UC Irvine Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine researchers report that regular electroacupuncture treatment can lower hypertension by increasing the release of a kind of opioid in the brainstem region that controls blood pressure. In tests on rats, UC Irvine School of Medicine cardiology researcher Zhi-Ling Guo…
As a young medical student, Dr. Erik D. Barton was intrigued by emergency room rotations and the challenge of determining patients’ diagnoses when they arrived with various symptoms. Today, Barton is a UCI Health emergency medical specialist and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed his medical degree…
The UCI Health Division of Hematology-Oncology has again been recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, for its high-quality cancer care. Participation in the ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative assures patients that an outpatient oncology practice meets the highest…
About five years ago Kathy Halsey, a school administrator, decided she had to do something about the nagging chronic heartburn and reflux that had plagued her for years. “The burning and pain would happen all day, making it hard to work. I had to eat right before any meeting and…
When Elaine Cain and her husband Al moved to Orange County from Michigan five years ago, their goal was to be close to family. They had no idea the move would also bring them hope for Elaine’s vision for the first time. Cain has been losing vision since age 32…
Meg Newton, 62, was on an evening stroll one day last November with her husband, Skip, when she turned to him with words that now seem prescient. For weeks she had been fighting weight gain and a feeling of abdominal bloating. “I had cut back on food portions and was…
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